{"id":30707,"date":"2023-12-20T19:16:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T03:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=30707"},"modified":"2023-12-20T19:16:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T03:16:40","slug":"colorado-supreme-court-disqualifies-insurrectionist-trump-from-2024-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/12\/20\/colorado-supreme-court-disqualifies-insurrectionist-trump-from-2024-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Supreme Court Disqualifies ‘Insurrectionist’ Trump from 2024 Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Then-U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to supporters near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Brendan Smialowski\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president,” the state’s highest court found, citing his role in fomenting the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BRETT WILKINS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dec 19, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a breaking news story… Please check back for possible updates.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colorado’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that former U.S. President Donald Trump\u2014the 2024 Republican presidential front-runner\u2014is barred from holding future office under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause due to his incitement of the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a decision likely to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Colorado justices ruled 4-3<\/a><\/a> that Trump’s effort to thwart the peaceful transition of presidential power for the first time in the nation’s history rendered him constitutionally ineligible to hold elected office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority found that a state court “did not err in concluding that President Trump engaged in… insurrection through his personal action” before and on January 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enacted after the Civil War, Section 3<\/a> of the 14th Amendment bars from public office any “officer of the United States” who takes an oath to uphold the Constitution and subsequently participates in an insurrection or rebellion against the U.S. government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“President Trump asks us to hold that Section 3 disqualifies every oath-breaking insurrectionist except the most powerful one<\/em> and that it bars oath-breakers from virtually every office, both state and federal, except the highest one in the land<\/em>,” the court said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The sum of these parts is this: President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president… because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the [secretary of state] to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot,” the ruling states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BREAKING: The Colorado Supreme Court holds, 4-3, that Trump "is disqualified" to be president under the Fourteenth Amendment, and "it would be a wrongful act" for him to be listed on the Colorado presidential primary ballot. More to come at Law Dork: https:\/\/t.co\/oFbD0ZqTha<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/REMOI7kpvm<\/a><\/p>— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) December 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>