The Colorado supreme court on Tuesday declared\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0ineligible to hold office again under the US constitution\u2019s insurrection clause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a historic decision, the justices ordered that he be removed from the state\u2019s presidential primary ballot, after determining that he engaged in insurrection on 6 January 2021. The ruling sets up a likely showdown in the nation\u2019s highest court to settle whether the January 6 attack on the Capitol amounted to an insurrection, and whether Trump\u2019s involvement disqualifies him from running for office.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The 4-3 decision by the\u00a0Colorado\u00a0supreme court marks the first time a presidential candidate has been deemed unqualified for office under a rarely used provision that bars insurrectionists from holding office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA majority of the court holds that Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,\u201d the court, whose justices were all appointed by Democratic governors, wrote in its ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump has vowed to appeal to the US supreme court, his campaign said. \u201cWe have full confidence that the US supreme court will quickly rule in our favor and finally put an end to these un-American lawsuits,\u201d said Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ruling applies only to the state\u2019s 5 March Republican primary, but its conclusion would likely also affect Trump\u2019s status for the 5 November general election. Nonpartisan US election forecasters view Colorado as safely Democratic, meaning that Joe Biden will likely carry the state regardless of Trump\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The decision is a victory for advocacy groups and anti-Trump voters who have mounted several similar legal challenges to the former president\u2019s candidacy under section 3 of the 14th amendment, which was enacted after the American civil war to keep former Confederates from returning to power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Colorado supreme court on Tuesday declared\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0ineligible to hold office again under the US constitution\u2019s insurrection clause. In a historic decision, the justices ordered that he be removed from the state\u2019s presidential primary ballot, after determining that he engaged in insurrection on 6 January 2021. The ruling sets up a likely showdown in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":40985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9306,5304,8348,5178,10387,9649,10327,8580,10507,913,911,6778,2471,11743,3805,11377,10722,6944,10899,1825,5465,184,6348,7354,10885,5251,594],"class_list":["post-40984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-appeal","tag-attack","tag-ban","tag-biden","tag-campaign","tag-capitol","tag-civil-war","tag-colorado","tag-court","tag-democratic","tag-election","tag-engaged","tag-joe-biden","tag-majority","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-removed","tag-republican","tag-supreme-coat","tag-supreme-court","tag-un","tag-united-states-president-donald-john-trump-jr","tag-us","tag-us-supreme-court","tag-victory","tag-war","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40986,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40984\/revisions\/40986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}