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President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign responded to the Colorado Supreme Court’s official decision from Tuesday which blocks his ability to appear on the state’s ballot during next year’s election.
Per the court’s ruling, Trump is disqualified to appear on the 2024 ballot because he “engaged in insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, during the protests at the Capitol Building.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung released a statement shortly after the ruling calling the move “a completely flawed decision” made to support a left-wing “scheme to interfere in an election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden.”
Cheung maintained that the “all-Democrat appointed” court’s ruling eliminates the “rights of Colorado voters to vote for the candidate of their choice.”
“Democrat Party leaders are in a state of paranoia over the growing, dominant lead President Trump has amassed in the polls. They have lost all faith in the failed Biden presidency and are now doing everything they can to stop the American voters from throwing them out of office next November,” Cheung wrote.
Cheung then confirmed that the Trump campaign would “swiftly file an appeal” of the case to the United States Supreme Court and request a stay for the “deeply undemocratic decision.”
“The Colorado Supreme Court issued a completely flawed decision tonight and we will swiftly file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and a concurrent request for a stay of this deeply undemocratic decision,” he added.
Cheung concluded, “We have full confidence that the U.S. Supreme Court will quickly rule in our favor and finally put an end to these unAmerican lawsuits.”
Per the Colorado State Supreme Court, if “review is sought in Supreme Court before the stay expires on January 4, 2024, then the stay shall remain in place,” meaning the state secretary of state would be “required” to include President Donald Trump’s name on the presidential primary ballot “until the receipt of any order or mandate from the Supreme Court.”
In a 4-3 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court argued that President Trump violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars those who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States from holding public office.
In November, Denver District Court Judge Sarah Wallace had previously ruled that the 45th president could appear on the primary ballot because she did not believe he was subject to Section 3, per Associated Press. Wallace’s ruling was later appealed by the liberal plaintiffs attempting to disqualify Trump from the ballot.
The court’s ruling is the first time a state court has ruled to block Trump from appearing on a state’s presidential ballot in regards to his comments from Jan. 6, 2021.
Courts in Minnesota and Michigan have previously rejected suits of this sort, though this issue has yet to be seen across a number of states.
