READ MORE: Trump appeals Maine ruling barring him from 2024 primary under the Constitution’s insurrection clause Because of that, the court ruled he is disqualified just as plainly as if he failed to meet the Constitution’s minimum age requirement for the presidency of 35 years. It agreed with the petitioners, six Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters whose lawsuit was funded by a Washington-based liberal group, that Trump clearly violated the provision. 6 was an “insurrection” incited by Trump. The Colorado high court upheld a finding by a district court judge that Jan. “We have a primary coming up on Super Tuesday and we need to know the answer,” Grimsley said. Sean Grimsley, an attorney for the plaintiffs seeking to disqualify Trump in Colorado, said on a legal podcast called “Law, disrupted” that he hopes the nation’s highest court hurries once it accepts the case, as he expects it will. Legal observers expect the high court will take the case because it concerns unsettled constitutional issues that go to the heart of the way the country is governed. Supreme Court also follows one from Colorado’s Republican Party.

6 attack was an “insurrection” without a judicial process. Critics warned that it was an overreach and that the court could not simply declare that the Jan. None had succeeded until a slim majority of Colorado’s seven justices - all appointed by Democratic governors - ruled last month against Trump. But the Colorado ruling has the potential to prompt courts or secretaries of state to remove him from the ballot in other, must-win states. He lost Colorado by 13 percentage points in 2020 and does not need to win the state to gain either the Republican presidential nomination or the presidency. Trump’s critics have filed dozens of lawsuits seeking to disqualify him in multiple states. Both the Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine secretary of state’s rulings are on hold until the appeals play out.ĮXPLAINER: Trump is blocked from the GOP primary ballot in 2 states.

Wednesday’s development came a day after Trump’s legal team filed an appeal against a ruling by Maine’s Democratic Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, that Trump was ineligible to appear on that state’s ballot over his role in the Capitol attack.

The provision has been used so sparingly in American history that the U.S. Capitol disqualified him under the clause. The court found that Trump’s role in the Jan. Trump appealed a 4-3 ruling in December by the Colorado Supreme Court that marked the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was used to bar a presidential contender from the ballot. Supreme Court to review a ruling barring him from the Colorado ballot, setting up a high-stakes showdown over whether a constitutional provision prohibiting those who “engaged in insurrection” will end his political career. DENVER (AP) - Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S.

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