The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday he banned the presence of the former president donald trump in the state ballots for the presidential election next year for his role in the assault on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. The decision could affect the performance of his national candidacy.
The ruling makes Trump the first presidential candidate in US history to be deemed ineligible for the White House under a rarely used provision of the Constitution that prohibits officials from holding office who have participated in acts of “insurrection or rebellion.”
The court concluded that the Constitution prohibits the favorite for the republican nomination in 2024 appear in the electoral ballot due to his role in instigation of violence against the American Government.
Trump is banned from participating in the Colorado elections
The ruling applies only to the state’s March 5 Republican primary.but its conclusion It would probably also affect his status for the presidential elections on November 5.. Experts believe Colorado will surely fall to the Democratic side, meaning President Joe Biden is likely to win the state regardless of the fate of Trump.
The case was brought by a group of voters from Colorado, helped by the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, who argued that Trump should be disqualified for inciting his supporters to attack the Capitol in a failed attempt to obstruct the transfer of presidential power to Biden after the 2020 elections.
It is likely that trump appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court. His campaign has condemned 14th Amendment challenges as an attempt to deny millions of voters their preferred choice for the presidency.
Decision is a victory for advocacy groups and voters anti-Trump who have filed several similar legal challenges to the candidacy of trump under section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was enacted after the Civil War.
The decision overturns a ruling by a lower court judge who found that Trump participated in an insurrection by inciting his followers to violence, but that, as president, he was not an “official of the United States” who could be disqualified in virtue of the amendment.
Donald Trump’s spokesman called the decision “undemocratic”
Donald Trump’s spokesman denounced this Tuesday the “undemocratic” decision of the Colorado Supreme Courtwhich considers that the former president cannot run for the White House and disqualifies him for the primaries in the state.
“The Colorado Supreme Court this afternoon issued a completely erroneous decision and we will quickly file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and a simultaneous request to stay this deeply undemocratic decision,” said Steven Cheung it’s a statement.
Source: Ambito
