Colorado Judge Dismisses Lawsuit to Exclude Trump From 2024 Ballot; Rules Trump Must Be Placed On Ballot
On Friday, Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace, appointed in 2022 by Democrat Gov. Jared Polis, rejected a lawsuit seeking to keep former President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot, and ordered the state Secretary of State to include him.
Breitbart reported Wallace previously “ruled that Trump did engage in insurrection on January 6, 2021, but was not an officer of the United States as defined by the Fourteenth Amendment.”
The report adds:
The lawsuit cited the Fourteenth Amendment’s “,” which bans those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding federal office, as justification for booting Trump from the ballot.
Trump’s attorneys had claimed he never “engaged in insurrection” and that his questioning of the 2020 election results is political speech protected by the First Amendment.
“Trump’s comments did not come close to ‘incitement,’ let alone ‘engagement’ in an insurrection,” they wrote.
Wallace disagreed.
Yet she looked more favorably upon Trump’s team’s argument that the amendment does not apply to the office of the president. The text of the amendment specifies “Senator or Representative in Congress” and “elector of President and Vice President” but not “President.”
Trump, Breitbart said, “has not been convicted of insurrection and was acquitted by the U.S. Senate of charges of engaging in insurrection and continues to deny wrongdoing.”
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BREAKING: The Colorado judge overseeing the lawsuit to remove Trump's name from the 2024 ballot has REJECTED the challenge and ordered the Secretary of State to place Donald J. Trump's name on the 2024 election ballot
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As Breitbart and others reported, Trump continues to face challenges across the country, but he has had a string of recent victories:
A federal court in New Hampshire recently dismissed a similar case, ruling that the Fourteenth Amendment claim is a “nonjusticiable political question.” A Minnesota state court recently dismissed a lawsuit aiming to keep Trump off that state’s primary ballot. And a Michigan Court of Claims judge ruled that the Secretary of State must list Trump on the ballot as well.
An appeal is likely. The Colorado case, or another similar case in another state, could likely land before the Supreme Court, which has never before ruled on the Civil War-era amendment.
Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung responded to the ruling:
“We applaud today’s ruling in Colorado, which is another nail in the coffin of the un-American ballot challenges. With this decision, Democrats’ 14th Amendment challenges have now been defeated in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and New Hampshire. These cases represent the most cynical and blatant political attempts to interfere with the upcoming presidential election by desperate Democrats who know Crooked Joe Biden is a failed president on the fast track to defeat. The American voter has a Constitutional right to vote for the candidate of their choosing, with President Donald J. Trump leading by massive numbers. This right was correctly preserved in Colorado today and we urge the swift disposal of any and all remaining Democrat ballot challenges. Onward to total victory 2024, we will Make America Great Again!”
Exit question: What’s next for desperate Democrats? Will they resort to violence?
Related:
- Anti-Trump Leftist Colorado Takes Lead In Pushing ‘Highly Suspect Constitutional Theory’ To Keep Trump Off The Ballot
- If Trump Is Kept Off The Ballot, His Voters Could Stay Home, Costing GOP The White House, Congress And Everything Else
- It’s Still Up To Congress To Enforce Fourteenth Amendment Including Disqualifying Trump From Running In 2024
- Poll: 30 Million Democrats Support Extreme Violence to Keep Trump from Winning in 2024
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