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
The failed one on Jan 6 but you already knew that and just act obtuse for some reason I'm sure makes perfect sense in your head.
People are still stuck on the “Why would Americans have an insurrection without guns” thing. Some people think that someone trying to actually overthrow the government would bring guns along for the job.
This particular insurrection started as a Trump rally and while you can bring many things to a Presidential rally, guns are not one of them.
That's reason #1 Trump wanted the metal detectors removed:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/06/28/jan-6-hearings-trump-wanted-to-let-armed-rioters-enter-his-rally-aide-says/
“They’re not here to hurt me. Let them in. Let my people in,” Trump said, according to Hutchinson. “They can march to the Capitol after the rally is over.”
Yeah I dunno man, I prefer Biden. Better to be chill and work on getting what you want peacefully than act up
Biden’s actions may themselves be peaceful but there’s been a hell of a lot of bloodshed on Biden’s watch.
Bro, you can't seriously expect one guy can't fix everything. Just look at all the wars in the middle east, if China keeps their nose out of it, you don't say a thing, but Biden says he's hands off, you play the white burden card.
If he's given money to Israel to sort things out, that might be on the assumption that being one of the premier democracies in the region, they'd lead by example, if he's wrong technically he's done nothing, he's only given money, money being the closest thing to freedom. If shit goes down that's for Benjamin Netanyahu to answer for, not Biden.
If anything he's more responsible than Trump and others before him including Bush, he's not going around planting fascist suggestions or starting wars in the middle east, he's simply allowing truth and freedom to prevail while standing his ground.
So it was an insurrection on the spur of the moment? Not a planned thing? Or did they just not think to bring guns to the capitol, via a different path that didn’t go through the rally? Or was the capitol and the march path all inside that security cordon?
The whole thing was in the security cordon.
Meh, I think you're the one whose got an issue or a dogma here
What makes you think that?