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.

LINKS

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

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1085·
    1 year ago

    He has access to rich people doctors, we’re stuck with him for at least another decade.

    • ivanafterall@kbin.socialBanned from community
      1002·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world
        38·
        1 year ago

        While fighting Beldorion on Nam Chorios, Leia Organa Solo remembered from her time in Jabba’s palace that Jabba’s fat hid a great deal more muscle than anyone suspected, and for all his apparent sluggishness, he could move deceptively fast across a room, particularly when his temper was roused.

        From his Wookiepedia page

            • swim@slrpnk.net
              4·
              1 year ago

              Well they could have seen the same celebrity doctor in Hollywood once or something, but there were two different dudes responsible for their individual care when they died; Michael Jackson’s doctor got 4 years in prison for manslaughter, and has no connection to Prince.

              • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                1 year ago

                Now you’re making me question my memory but I’m not going to go back and look. I know Prince got hooked back on drugs and I thought it was the same doc that did it. It could have been that they had the same lawyers that took over their estates? There’s some serious connection. I could have sworn it was the doctors.

                • swim@slrpnk.net
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  I did look; there’s no discernible doctor connection. Couldn’t find anything about same lawyers either, but that seems more likely to be a true footnote in their histories. The media wanted there to be animosity between the pop stars, but they were neither enemies nor friends. Jackson named his son Prince, but not after the artist. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

                  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
                    11·
                    1 year ago

                    I know one of those ate true, but it was awhile ago. If you don’t save the articles from the time, it’s hard to find layer, ime

      • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        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!

      • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        1 year ago

        Michael Jackson didn’t die of natural causes. Elvis died in a time when doctors still used chainsaws to open the birth canal wider and help women give birth. I wouldn’t consider those good examples.

    • TheAuthor_13@lemm.ee
      121·
      1 year ago

      Not if he keeps up his high-protein meal plan… Wendy’s is awesome once or twice a month, not a day.

        • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          Until proven otherwise, I will continue to believe he was silenced (as in: killed, perhaps even at the order of Trump himself somehow, considering how tight he historically was with Epstein). Every single official explanation of the situation I have seen since his murder (and again: I firmly believe it was murder) has simply ignored HUGE questions and discrepancies that are at the absolute core of the matter.

          • Zink@programming.dev
            4·
            1 year ago

            It almost seems like it was done to send a message. Either that or a situation where they had to act when they had the chance even if it would look bad.

            • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              31·
              1 year ago

              The part that’s deeply problematic - and, in fact, should absolutely be considered a constitutional crisis if any evidence can be uncovered to the effect - is that Trump may have ordered the summary, trial-less execution of a person who was fully and completely in the custody of The State, and that the execution was carried out. And the simple fact that everything about the matter is still opaque and was pretty definitely kept quiet from multiple angles indicates clear consciousness of guilt on the parts of whoever was involved.