Former US President Donald Trump may not appear in the 2024 state’s presidential primary as the Colorado Supreme Court has disqualified him due to his attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
“President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president,” the state court wrote in an unsigned opinion. “Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the election code for the secretary to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.”
The Colorado court, which voted 4-3, said it would stay its ruling until early January, giving Trump time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Trump is almost certain to do so, which would put a historic question before the nation’s highest court − and once again put the legal issues swirling around the former president in the hands of the justices.
A Colorado district judge last month held that Trump had “engaged in an insurrection” by inciting the mob that stormed that U.S. Capitol but that the provision of the 14th Amendment that disqualifies certain officials involved with insurrection did not apply to a president.
The Colorado court is the first state to explicitly rule against Trump on the issue. Courts in several other states − including Minnesota, Michigan, and New Hampshire − have shot down similar legal claims in recent weeks.
Via: USA Today
