The Colorado Supreme Court disqualified President Donald Trump from appearing on the 2024 GOP presidential primary ballot.
Tuesday's decision comes after a lower court judge in Denver ruled against removing his ballot access.
"A majority of the court holds that President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution," the ruling said. "Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.” The Colorado Supreme Court just removed Donald Trump from the ballot under the 14th amendment.
Even after a lower court judge in Denver who was a longtime Democrat donor ruled against.
Because "Democracy" is when a handful of partisan judges prevent people from being able to… pic.twitter.com/v8tn2CKHVX
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 19, 2023
The lawsuit was filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW), a Washington D.C.-based watchdog group. They argued that former President Trump was involved in aiding an insurrection on January 6, 2021 — and therefore ineligible to run in the 2024 election.
The lawsuit had cited a never-before-used Civil War-era provision to the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states:“No person shall ... hold any office, civil or military, under the United States ... who, having previously taken an oath ... as an officer of the United States, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
CREW has argued Trump “summoned tens of thousands of enraged supporters for a ‘wild’ protest in Washington, D.C.” and that “racism and white supremacy—the same virulent ideologies that led to the Civil War and, in its wake, the Fourteenth Amendment—pervaded Trump’s insurrection and the movement surrounding it.”
Similar lawsuits have been filed in other states. BREAKING: The Colorado Supreme Court has just removed Trump from the ballot heading into 2024 based on 14th Amendment ‘insurrectionist ban’ argument that has failed in every other half-baked legal challenge.
ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) December 19, 2023
Trump has called these efforts "election interference" and will likely appeal the decision in the U.S. Supreme Court.
