A Colorado judge has rejected a lawsuit from a group of voters who argued Donald Trump is constitutionally ineligible to hold office under a Civil War-era insurrection clause and ordered Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold to place him on the 2024 primary ballot.
“In a significant ruling, a Colorado judge overseeing a lawsuit aimed at removing former President Donald J. Trump’s name from the 2024 presidential ballot has rejected the challenge. The judge has further instructed the Secretary of State to ensure that Trump’s name appears on the 2024 election ballot.
In September, a coalition of six Republicans and unaffiliated Colorado voters, including former state and federal officials, filed a lawsuit seeking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s 2024 presidential ballot.
The plaintiffs are Norma Anderson, Michelle Priola, Claudine Cmarada, Krista Kafer, Kathi Wright, and Christopher Castilian.
The case argues that Trump violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies any individual from holding federal office if they have ‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion’ against the United States”. -Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit
“The Court holds that the absence of the President from the list of positions to which the Amendment applies combined with the fact that Section Three specifies that the disqualifying oath is one to ‘support’ the Constitution whereas the Presidential oath is to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution, it appears to the Court that for whatever reason the drafters of Section Three did not intend to include a person who had only taken the Presidential Oath".
While three justices from Michigan, Minnesota, and New Hampshire have all dismissed similar challenges aimed at preventing Donald Trump from appearing on the state ballots for the 2024 presidential election in recent weeks, all three of those other cases were dismissed before reaching a trial, whereas Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace repeatedly rebuffed Trump’s attorneys’ attempts to throw out the Colorado case.
And considering that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is a Civil War-era legal cudgel ratified in 1868 to prevent Southern politicians from holding office during Reconstruction that has only been applied twice since 1919, it’s an uphill battle for Trump’s detractors to portray their efforts to bar him from office as anything other than another partisan dispute driven by their political vendetta against their sworn presidential adversary.