Colorado: the supreme court bars Trup from participating in the primaries. The former president speaks of an attack on democracy
Former President Donald Trump is disqualified from serving as president of the United States and cannot appear on the Colorado primary ballot due to his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by his supporters, he said. the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday .
The landmark 4-3 Colorado Supreme Court ruling, which is likely to be echoed by the U.S. Supreme Court, makes Trump the first presidential candidate deemed ineligible for the White House under a rarely used civil war-related constitutional provision , which bars officials who have participated in “insurrection or rebellion” from holding office.
The ruling applies only to Colorado's March 5 Republican primary, but could affect Trump's status in the state for the Nov. 5 general election. Unofficial US election forecasters believe Colorado is democratically safe, meaning President Joe Biden will likely win the state regardless of Trump's fate.
The former president obviously reacted with great harshness : “ It is not surprising that the Supreme Court of Colorado, entirely appointed by Democrats, ruled against President Trump, supporting the project of a left-wing group financed by Soros of interfering in an election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden, removing President Trump’s name from the ballot and eliminating the right of Colorado voters to vote for the candidate of their choice.”
Trump has vowed to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Colorado court said it will delay the effect of its decision until at least January 4, 2024, to allow for the appeal.
The ruling sets the stage for the Supreme Court, whose 6-3 conservative majority includes three Trump appointees, to consider whether Trump is fit to serve another term as president.
The lawsuit is seen as a test case for a broader effort to disqualify Trump from state elections under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was enacted after the US Civil War to bar supporters of the Confederacy from serving in government. Of course, excluding Trump for legal reasons would open the doors not only to enormous controversy, but also to other conservative candidates who, in some ways, could appear even stronger, politically, than the elder Biden.
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