The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating allegations of violent threats against Colorado Supreme Court justices. Last week they ruled that former President Donald Trump cannot run in the next election.
Last week, the justices of the Colorado Supreme Court They ruled that Donald Trump cannot be a presidential candidate, due to his role in the assault on the Capitol. Given this strong decision, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of USA it’s found investigating complaints about violent threats made to magistrates.
“The FBI is aware of the situation and is working with the local authorities. We will vigorously continue investigations into any threat or use of violence committed by someone who uses extremist views to justify their actions, regardless of their motivation,” the agency said in an official statement.
The judges’ decision on Donald Trump
He December 20, 2023the Colorado Supreme Court decided exclude trump of the internal of the Republican Partyahead of the elections that will take place in November 2024. The justification for the ruling is that the former president had been part of the insurrection of the assault on the Capitolwhich happened on January 6, 2021, after Biden was elected as the new president of the United States.
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The court in charge of the ruling invoked the Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitutionwhich prohibits access to government positions to those people who “participate in an insurrection”. In that sense, the magistrates indicated that the attack on the United States Congress was an insurrection, in which Trump “involved” with a speech that I was looking for “incite the crowd.”
Trump’s campaign team has already anticipated that it will appeal the ruling to the country’s Supreme Court, made up of a conservative majority, with the aim of “putting an end to these anti-American lawsuits.” Furthermore, due to what happened on January 6 at the Capitol, Trump is currently facing trial for conspiracysince the prosecutors who accuse him consider that he incited his voters to go to the Capitol and storm it to iprevent the certification of Joe Bidenpresident elected in those elections.
What was Donald Trump’s participation in the assault on the Capitol?
He assault on the United States Capitol It occurred on January 6, 2021, when a joint session of the legislative branch was taking place to count the Electoral College vote and certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. Supporters of outgoing president Donald Trump They forcibly broke into the Congress headquartersviolating security, generating chaos and occupying different parts of the building for several hours.
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Since his defeat in the elections, Donald Trump has spoken out against the results, suggesting that Joe Biden’s victory was fraudulent. Then, on January 6, 2021, Trump gave a speech to his supporters gathered near the White House, urging them to “fight like demons” against the presidential election results that they were going to be certified at the Capitol, one of the many actions by which their participation in the revolt is judged.
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