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- antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world
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 stateās 2024 ballot, ruling that he isnāt an eligible presidential candidate because of the 14th Amendmentās āinsurrectionist ban.ā
āEven 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.
āPresident Trumpās 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.ā
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 āengaged in insurrection.ā But the wording is vague, it doesnāt 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,ā 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 āwas not enacted to decide whether a candidate engaged in insurrection,ā and said he would have dismissed the challenge to Trumpās eligibility.
LINKS
AP: Colorado Supreme Court bans Trump from the stateās ballot under Constitutionās insurrection clause | @negativenull@startrek.website
Washington Post: Donald Trump is barred from Coloradoās 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 stateās 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 Amendmentās āinsurrectionist banā | @Boddhisatva
New York Times: Trump Is Disqualified From the 2024 Ballot, Colorado Supreme Court Rules | @silence7@slrpnk.net
The U.S. Supreme Court only has until January 4th to respond.
The Jan. 4th deadline isnāt that meaningful. The ballots donāt even exist yet, so striking him from the ballots on January 4th isnāt actually possible.
The more interesting deadline is not Jan. 4 nor Mar. 5 (the primary election date), but February 12, 2024 because this is when mail-in ballots will be sent. No changes at that point.
Colorado deadline to submit primary candidates for the ballots is January 5th - one day after the deadline.
Yes and that might be important but I think the court could be persuaded to permit a candidate to be added if a higher court ruled that it was constitutionally required. Thatās why I think Feb. 12 is the real goal line.
Ah I understand the logic now. The āpracticalā deadline is essentially when the ballots must be created and mailed. Got it.
Those ballots need to be created before they can be addressed/mailed. All that takes time, and thus the January 5th deadline. Once the process has started I donāt think itās practical to scrap ballots and start over.
The real hard deadline is probably between the two, if a SCOTUS opinion dropped on February 11th, itās probably too late to correct, but if it came in January 6th, theyād probably make a good faith effort to correct it if necessary.
Yeah, in good faith I could see them doing it, but I think legally they could just say āto lateā.