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The Supreme Court of Colorado Hands Trump the Presidency
The Supreme Court of the State of Colorado, riding roughshod over the far-reaching ramifications of their verdict, have set a dangerous precedent in American democracy while lending credence to former president Donald Trump’s accusations of nefarious elites machinating through bureaucratic channels to prevent his return to the White House.
On December 19, the Colorado Supreme Court rendered a 4–3 verdict barring Trump from putting his name forward on the state’s primary ballot in the upcoming 2024 election. Invoking Section 3 of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, ratified by Congress in the aftermath of the Civil War, as well as the evidence originally brought forth to the Senate in the wake of the Capitol Hill riots, they declared that the former president’s actions on the sixth of January 2021 constituted insurrection and as such made him ineligible to hold office for a second term.
The text of Section 3 reads as follows:
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any…
