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Donald Trump is ineligible to run for Office in the White House again, a Colorado Supreme Court ruling decided on Tuesday, citing Trump’s role in the January 6 riots in the Capitol in 2021. This decision may have considerable repercussions on the U.S. general election in 2024,
The historic court ruling orders the Colorado secretary of state to exclude the former U.S. president from Colorado’s Republican presidential primary ballot on March 5, stating his role in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and rallying supporters to storm the Capitol.
This is the first time a presidential candidate has been deemed ineligible for the White House, a ruling which has applied Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, known as the “insurrection clause.”
The clause bars anyone from Congress, military, federal, and state offices who once took an oath to uphold the constitution, but has participated in rebellion or uprising against it. It has almost never been used before in such a high case, or to bar a presidential candidate.
“He did what he could to subvert the lawful processes for electing our president,” said Richard Friedman, a University of Michigan law professor, stating that the decision should not come as a surprise.
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But Trump’s lawyers have maintained that the January 6 riot at the Capitol is not serious enough to be deemed as insurrection.
Trump’s campaign has vowed to immediately appeal the ruling to the US Supreme Court. The former president neglected to mention Colorado’s ruling yesterday evening in his speech in Waterloo, Iowa, but his campaign sent out a fundraising email, which cited a “tyrannical ruling.”
The decision against Trump has eliminated the “rights of Colorado voters to vote for the candidate of their choice,” said campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, as quoted by the New York Times. “We have full confidence that the U.S. Supreme Court will quickly rule in our favor and finally put an end to these un-American lawsuits.”
A group of Colorado voters working with the group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed the suit, arguing that Trump should be eliminated after his involvement in the storming of the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021.
