The Colorado Supreme Court is removing former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot, saying he is ineligible to be president.
In a stunning and unprecedented decision, the Colorado Supreme Court removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot, ruling that he isn’t an eligible presidential candidate because of the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.”
“Even when the siege on the Capitol was fully underway, he continued to support it by repeatedly demanding that Vice President (Mike) Pence refuse to perform his constitutional duty and by calling Senators to persuade them to stop the counting of electoral votes.
“President Trump’s direct and express efforts, over several months, exhorting his supporters to march to the Capitol to prevent what he falsely characterized as an alleged fraud on the people of this country were indisputably overt and voluntary.”
Ratified after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment says officials who take an oath to support the Constitution are banned from future office if they “engaged in insurrection.” But the wording is vague, it doesn’t explicitly mention the presidency, and has only been applied twice since 1919.
We have full confidence that the U.S. Supreme Court will quickly rule in our favor and finally put an end to these unAmerican lawsuits,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.
Chief Justice Brian Boatright, one of the three dissenters on the seven-member court, wrote that he believes Colorado election law “was not enacted to decide whether a candidate engaged in insurrection,” and said he would have dismissed the challenge to Trump’s eligibility.
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AP: Colorado Supreme Court bans Trump from the state’s ballot under Constitution’s insurrection clause | @negativenull@startrek.website
Washington Post: Donald Trump is barred from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot, the state Supreme Court rules | @silence7@slrpnk.net
CNBC: Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Trump from 2024 ballot, pauses ruling to allow appeal | @return2ozma
NBC News: Colorado Supreme Court kicks Donald Trump off the state's 2024 ballot for violating the U.S. Constitution. | 18-24-61-B-17-17-4
CNN: Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from 2024 ballot | A Phlaming Phoenix
CNN:Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from 2024 ballot based on 14th Amendment’s ‘insurrectionist ban’ | @Boddhisatva
New York Times: Trump Is Disqualified From the 2024 Ballot, Colorado Supreme Court Rules | @silence7@slrpnk.net
I can’t wait for the megathread when he fucking dies. Hopefully, after a few years in a supermax.
He has access to rich people doctors, we're stuck with him for at least another decade.
The comparably-built Jabba the Hutt was apparently nearly 600 years old in Return of the Jedi. He's sure to surpass Kissinger, at least, in this timeline.
From his Wookiepedia page
Disgusting and horrifying! I hope Trump doesn't possess the same abilities
He can barely hold onto a glass of water.
I dunno, Elvis and Michael Jackson both had rich people doctors too...
Prince and Michael had the same rich doctor, funny how both of those turned out.
Let’s hope trumps doctor pumps him full of fentanyl.
And his lawyers take over all of his estate like Prince & Michael's did, it would be like a sitcom.
Nah, capsaicin or something.
You can have all the best doctors in the world but if you’re addicted to drugs they can’t save you if you OD. I doubt Trump is a heroin junky but you never know!
Not if he keeps up his high-protein meal plan… Wendy’s is awesome once or twice a month, not a day.
There's nothing wrong with a little fast food once or twice a meal
Proteins great. It's the oils and sugars.
And the salt. He's regularly consuming just godawful amounts of sodium.
he doen't do wendy's... he's a McDonalds kinda guy.
Must be rich to do McDonalds.
Hamberders tho.
honestly? I hope he dies in the next few months. It would save us all a lot of heart ache. Natural causes. We dont need hm becoming a martyr.
all those amphetamines and cheesburgers have to catch up with him sometime. he's morbidly obese and nearly 80
And he rawdogged covid full force.
But he is an old important white guy
That day I will buy the biggest pig and roast it and invite all my friends to party like it’s 1999.
Jesus I miss 1999...
He won't last years in a Supermax. Maybe a few mooches, not a few years.
Mooches?
I'm not familiar with the word in that context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement#Scaramucci
https://theweek.com/speedreads/861881/anthony-scaramucci-measures-time-mooches
You could poop in a bucket of water, wait for it to break down, then dump the shit water in the grass over his grave.
Yea I don’t think that will fly with the misses but I like the idea.
You make it sound like you're not looking forward to the "Trump Convicted" and "Trump Sentenced' mega threads
Would love to see it, have my doubts about it coming to pass. Which is pretty fucked.
If convicted, Trump is likely to serve out his federal sentence in Colorado at the Super Max prison at ADX Florence.
Was there a megathread for Kissenger?
There probably was, but I missed the chance to say: Fuck that guy!
It deserves to be said even again.
So say we all
By then there will be several digital AI clones and all the supporters will think he is still alive or faked his own death etc
Hopefully, in the next few minutes