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Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz has slammed the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling barring Trump from the ballot, calling it “anti-democratic” and “absurd.”
The Colorado Supreme Court has disqualified President Trump from appearing on the state’s ballot, citing that President Trump had engaged in so-called insurrection during the Jan. 6 attacks.
According to Newsweek, this decision makes President Trump the first presidential candidate in the U.S. to be ineligible for the presidency based on the 14th Amendment.
Dershowitz is one of the many who have reacted to this ruling with outrage, slamming it in a Wednesday interview on Newsmax’s “National Report” with Jon Glasgow & Emma Rechenberg.
In the interview, he said, “In the 60 years I’ve been practicing and teaching law, I’ve never seen a decision that’s so anti-democratic and so unconstitutional; it is absurd.”
Dershowitz explains that the 14th Amendment, which the Colorado court based its ruling on, states that this decision should only be made by Congress, not the states. He added that he studied the text of the 14th Amendment and found that it does not even apply to the president.
Dershowitz said, “If you go and read the text of the provision, it doesn’t even apply to the president. It says no person shall by a senator, or representative or elector, and then it gives an oath of office, and the oath of office is not the presidential oath of office. It’s the senatorial oath of office.”
In fact, Dershowitz highlighted that this amendment was not made for this purpose and told the co-hosts that “the amendment itself was designed simply to prevent people who fought in the Civil War from running for certain offices.”
RSBN reported that Trump’s presidential campaign would file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court, which Dershowitz believes will be successful.
