After the Colorado Supreme Court‘s unprecedented decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot, one of the justices warned of subsequent “chaos” in the United States.
The Colorado Supreme Court’s 4-3 ruling determined that the MAGA leader isn’t an eligible presidential candidate because of a Civil War-era clause in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that mandates officials who take an oath to support the Constitution to be banned from office in the future if they engage in “insurrection.”
Those fighting Trump’s eligibility say his actions during and related to the January 6, 2021, siege on the U.S. Capitol amounted to engaging in an insurrection. The result of Tuesday’s ruling in Colorado will be held, pending the results of Trump’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The issue of whether Trump could be barred from the ballots of several states has been brewing for months. A lower court judge in Colorado already agreed that Trump engaged in insurrection in encouraging the Capitol attack and seeking to overthrow the 2020 election result. Trump appealed the insurrection ruling. The former president has continued to deny any wrongdoing and has repeatedly said that the January 6 case is part of a political witch hunt against him.
Three of the seven justices on the Colorado Supreme Court dissented, arguing the former president didn’t have a fair trial.
Chief Justice Brian D. Boatright dissented in addition to Justices Maria E. Berkenkotter and Carlos Samour.
Samour warned of “chaos” in the aftermath of the ruling.
“The decision to bar former President Donald J. Trump (‘President Trump’)—by all accounts the current leading Republican presidential candidate (and reportedly the current leading overall presidential candidate)—from Colorado’s presidential primary ballot flies in the face of the due process doctrine,” Samour wrote in his dissent.
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