Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks upon arriving at a Get Out The Vote rally at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C., on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. Donald Trump can remain on Colorado’s ballot ahead of the Tuesday primary, the U.S. Supreme court ruled Monday morning, overturning
The case was filed by a group of unaffiliated and Republican Colorado voters who argued Trump was ineligible for office under the Civil War-era amendment to the Constitution. Section Three of the 14th Amendment specifically bars people who engaged in insurrection or rebellion from office if they had previously taken an oath to support the Constitution.
The case was brought as part of a national effort helmed by the liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, and other groups. CREW zeroed in on Colorado because state laws allow voters to challenge the eligibility of candidates and the Colorado secretary of state has the power to keep ineligible candidates off the ballot.
Trump’s legal team called the Jan. 6 riot “shameful, criminal violent,” but they didn’t concede that it was an insurrection — or that Trump engaged in any insurrection. During oral arguments, the justices did not linger on whether the Capitol riot amounted to insurrection, or if the presidency was intended to be one of the offices covered by the 14th Amendment.
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