The state that brought forth that Congresswoman that was caught fondling and being fondled in a movie theater also has been the first state to kick Trump off the 2024 ballot.

You heard me right….kicked off!

Donald Trump has become the first presidential candidate disqualified from running in an election under an 1868 amendment to the Constitution that bars insurrectionists from seeking office. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled 4-3 Wednesday to remove Trump from the GOP presidential primary ballot in the state, saying he was not eligible because of section 3 of the 14th Amendment, the BBC reports. Last month, a district court judge in the state ruled that Trump had engaged in insurrection by inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack but determined that the amendment didn’t apply to presidential candidates.

The court’s Tuesday ruling stated Trump is disqualified under the amendment and “it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot,” the Washington Post reports. “We are mindful of the magnitude and weight of the questions now before us,” the justices wrote. “We are likewise mindful of our solemn duty to apply the law, without fear or favor, and without being swayed by public reaction to the decisions that the law mandates we reach.”

The court stayed its decision until Jan. 4—or until the US Supreme Court issues a ruling in the case, the AP reports. Colorado will hold its GOP primary on March 5, Super Tuesday. Officials say the deadline to print ballots is Jan. 5. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung described the decision as “completely flawed.” “We will swiftly file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and a concurrent request for a stay of this deeply undemocratic decision,” he said.

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/politics/trump-colorado-supreme-court-14th-amendment/index.html

Fascinating….now that there is a blueprint more states should follow suit.

You know his mouth will be popping over this turn of events and send his lawyers scrambling for a way to reverse this ruling.But what does the rest of the GOP field about this ruling?

If Donald Trump is not on the Colorado ballot, Vivek Ramaswamy doesn’t want to be, either. The Republican presidential candidate says he will withdraw from the state’s GOP primary ballot to protest the Colorado Supreme Court’s Wednesday ruling that ordered Trump be left off the ballot due to his involvement in the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol. “I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the state’s ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley to do the same immediately—or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country,” Ramaswamy said in a statement cited by the Hill. More:

• “This is what an *actual* attack on democracy looks like: in an un-American, unconstitutional, and *unprecedented* decision, a cabal of Democrat judges are barring Trump from the ballot in Colorado,” the statement continues. Trump’s name remains on the ballot while the former president’s legal team appeals to the US Supreme Court.
• Christie also came out with a statement, the Hill reports. “What I will say is I do not believe Donald Trump should be prevented from being President of the United States, by any court,” he says. “I think he should be prevented from being the President of the United States by the voters of this country.” Christie also pointed out that Trump has never been tried in court on the grounds on which he is being kept off the ballot (the constitutional amendment that bars insurrectionists from seeking office).
• Haley echoed Christie, the Des Moines Register reports. “I will tell you that I don’t think Donald Trump needs to be president. I think I need to be president. I think that’s good for the country,” she told reporters after a campaign event. “But I will beat him fair and square. We don’t need to have judges making these decisions, we need voters to make these decisions.”
• DeSantis had not released a response as of this writing, but he was also making headlines related to the Colorado primary, which takes place on Super Tuesday (March 5). “To qualify for the CO primary ballot, the state party requires that candidates post something on social media that announces their excitement while encouraging their followers to follow the state party’s social media accounts for updates about the state party primary and events. I’m excited to officially be on the ballot for the Colorado primary!” the Florida governor posted on X. It was meant to be a “deadpan” joke regarding the Colorado Republican party’s requirement, per Florida Politics, but it fell flat on X, where the tweet was widely mocked. That site and Newsweek round up reactions.

Sucking up to the presumptive winner of the primaries.

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