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The Colorado supreme court on Tuesday declared Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the US constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race.
The decision from a court whose justices were all appointed by Democratic governors makes Trump the first presidential candidate in US history to be deemed ineligible for the White House under a rarely used provision that bars elected officials from holding office if they have engaged in “insurrection or rebellion”.
“A majority of the court holds that Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,” the court wrote in its 4-3 decision.
The decision is a victory for advocacy groups and anti-Trump voters who have mounted several similar legal challenges to the former president’s candidacy under section 3 of the 14th amendment, which was enacted after the American civil war.
The ruling applies only to the state’s 5 March Republican primary, but its conclusion would likely also affect Trump’s 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’s fate.
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The decision from a court whose justices were all appointed by Democratic governors makes Trump the first presidential candidate in US history to be deemed ineligible for the White House under a rarely used provision that bars elected officials from holding office if they have engaged in “insurrection or rebellion”.
“A majority of the court holds that Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,” the court wrote in its 4-3 decision.
The decision is a victory for advocacy groups and anti-Trump voters who have mounted several similar legal challenges to the former president’s candidacy under section 3 of the 14th amendment, which was enacted after the American civil war.
The ruling applies only to the state’s 5 March Republican primary, but its conclusion would likely also affect Trump’s 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’s fate.
Colorado supreme court disqualifies Trump from state’s 2024 ballot
State’s highest court declares former president ineligible for White House under the US constitution’s insurrection clause
