Donald Trump Ineligible For The US Presidency, Declares Colorado Supreme Court
The Colorado Supreme Court declared on Tuesday that former United States President Donald Trump is ineligible to hold office again. The state”s top court made this historic judgment because of Donald Trump”s role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
The Colorado Supreme Court declared Donald Trump ineligible under the US Constitution’s insurrection clause. Donald Trump is the first presidential candidate in the history of the United States to be deemed ineligible for the White House under a rarely used provision of the U.S. Constitution. This provision bars officials who have engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” from holding office. Notably, the court also removed Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot.
However, the court paused the decision from taking effect until January 4. With this delay, Donald Trump can approach the US Supreme Court to overturn the 4-3 ruling of the Colorado Supreme Court. The court wrote in its 4-3 decision that “a majority of the court holds that Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.” The US Supreme Court will be crucial now as it will decide whether Donald Trump can remain in the US presidential race in 2024.
This is what an *actual* attack on democracy looks like: in an un-American, unconstitutional, and *unprecedented* decision, a cabal of Democrat judges are barring Trump from the ballot in Colorado. Having tried every trick in the book to eliminate President Trump from running in…
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 19, 2023
A spokesperson from the Trump campaign said that the court issued a completely flawed decision and added that they would file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Trump’s campaign also called the court decision “undemocratic.” Donald Trump’s campaign team had expressed confidence that the top courts would rule in their favor. “This ruling, issued by the Colorado Supreme Court, attacks the very heart of this nation’s democracy.” CNBC quoted Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, as saying. Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican presidential candidate, called the Colorado court’s action “an actual attack on democracy.”
