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© Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Colorado Supreme Court, in landmark ruling, bans Trump from state’s ballot under insurrection clause
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI DENVER©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
102 Comments
Yrral
Trump.need to be deemed clinical insane by a court,then he would go absolutely crazy
yamada1043
The 14th amendment to the constitution is clear … the former Insurrectionist-in-Chief is disqualified to seek the Office of the President of the United States of America (POTUS) … period!
Hervé L'Eisa
And it will be overturned on appeal of this kangaroo court ruling.
John
JUSTICE!
John
Turns out actions really do have consequences in American law.
The reckoning is neigh.
iradickle
Nice to start the day looking at a win. But to be honest I wish there were better candidates to chose from.
fallaffel
Of course it will be overturned, but it sends a good message that no one should be above the law.
Yubaru
If he is not an "officer of the United States" then by what law does he become "Commander in Chief" of the armed Forces, which is by law an officer!
Yrral
Herve,you do.not know what court ,it will be overturned,not the 9th US circuit court of appeals,the most liberal appeal court,I am an American,only an educated American, would know the circuit court of appeals
John
Conservative judge and Federalist society member in good standing Micheal Luttig says the ruling is correct and the law is clear.
And SCOTUS has already shown multiple times that not only doesn’t it belong to “Less intelligent Voldemort” (all of the evil with none of the brains), it clearly has had enough of his “I’m above the law” behavior.
as Luttig is not only a conservative legal scholar but also a former federal judge, I’ll take his considered opinion over that of the cultist rubes.
Yrral
Colorado electors are give not by the popular state results,but by who win national vote
zibala
Another farce.
Like Russian collusion.
Paul
Excellent news!!!
John
That all 5 intelligence agencies and the GOO-chairs Senate Intelligence Committee said absolutely happened.
Yes, another “farce” that was aired live on tv.
2020hindsights
There are consequences for engaging in insurrection.
Bob Fosse
45 making history again, for all the wrong reasons.
zibala
No, just the radical left and its continued witch hunts.
Chico3
Excellent news of the day and for 2024! Nice. Apparently, just about anyone who is or who was associated with this guy has been screwed one way or another.
John
Wouldn’t it be a shame if he threw such a fit that he blew a vein?
Chico3
That will happen when he is in prison, like his conspirators.
wallace
Trump meets his Waterloo.
John
This suit was brought by a group of registered Republicans and declared Independents.
You didn’t know that little rid-bit?
How utterly unsurprising.
bass4funk
No, after the SC rules the constitution, then we can say, JUSTICE.
bass4funk
For a month or 2 according to the Dems.
zibala
Americans want these courts to run the country, or do you want legislators to run the country?
You want a court to interfere in the election by not letting the people vote for who they want?
What a bunch of looneys on that court.
Trump has never been charged or convicted with insurrection.
These "judges" should all step down.
John
coming as surely as dawn follows the darkness.
I should revise my remarks to say “This is the beginning of the reckoning.”
John
(Channeling Dr. Phil) How’s that been working out for you so far? Lol.
bass4funk
Seems like it's coming Joe's way.
So that's the reason and desperation for trying to get Trump? Kind of a pathetic tactic.
lincolnman
Just one of many to follow - especially after the mountains of evidence from Powell, Cheseboro, Ellis, and Meadows comes out...
As I've said all along, better dump those Trump 2024 banners and print out some "Haley 2024" ones ASAP...
wallace
I can almost hear the MAGA criers.
zibala
Trump voters aren't scared of Biden being on the ballot.
How come Biden supporters are scared of Trump being on the ballot?
bass4funk
More like laughing actually. The left is trying sooo hard, funny.
zibala
I actually feel bad that they think this is a victory of some sort.
wallace
bass4funk
My comments are my own. Nothing to do with the "left".
Kurumazaka 2
Beautiful. Now let’s have a few more.
suit brought by republicans who don’t see open fascism as preferable to libs
Funny how the former GOP used to champion States Rights
Peter Neil
Hey, it’s the law.
Bob Fosse
No. The US constitution and the SC of Colorado.
Why are you against the constitution?
Yrral
Zibala name one case Trump has won ,he should be declared psychological unfit, Bass4 with his Maga delusional state of mind is just as insane
Bob Fosse
The Colorado SC did rule the constitution. It’s even in the very first sentence of the article.
Why are you against the constitution?
chotto_2
Funny how the extrene Right is always defending the Constitution until it works against them.
First15
What material have YOU been reading? The "Extreme Right" wants the Constitution destroyed because, according to their philosophy, "This 'never' would have happened had the Constitution 'worked' in the first place".
bass4funk
98%
Seems like these 4 unelected judges are trying to do just that.
Hmm, you should be asking the left that very question.
Interestingly, the left doesn't even know what the Constitution is.
nogardflow
Isn't it amazing that even with mounds of evidence any investigation into trump is a witch hunt and yet with no evidence at all, an impeachment inquiry in to Biden is absolutely justified.
Bob Fosse
That’s what you call an answer is it?
”ditto” next?
The state SC ruled in line with the constitution. You don’t like it but that’s what happened. For the first time in US history. 45 making records again.
First15
I have to know what it is that you're looking for if you want my recs. Outside of that, all I can do is list some of my favorite books: A Night to Remember (Walter Lord) BattleTech: Decision at Thunder Rift (William Keith Jr.), Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett), The Hustler (Walter Travis).
Cowards afraid that they're losing their power over the party. As I said in another comment section, the Republican party's biggest weakness is how petty and fractured it can become.
Jimizo
Sounds like you have little time for disagreement. There are lifelong Republicans who despise Trump and what he’s done to the party. They’d include people like fiscal conservatives who saw his out of control spending as unforgivable. There are others who saw his behaviour regarding the January 6th events as spitting in the face of what a peaceful transition of power should be. Plenty of other objections from Republicans we can talk about here.
Defensible objections.
Should they just line up behind Trump?
u_s__reamer
Only the Supremes can now save Trump's desperate bid to regain the Oval Office and keep out of a prison cell. Clarence has surely heard the call, but will the 3 Trump appointees go there? To save their tainted reputations they will probably rather not.
Peter Neil
Trump’s trying to figure out what Hitler would do, since he studied his speeches so much.
Be frightened of people who rise to power with lies.
bass4funk
Because they're stepping over the Constitution again, they just don't learn.
Yup.
Depends on the statement.
A bunch of liberals over-stepping their constitutional authority again.
I don't have to like and neither with the left once the SC rules in Trump's favor.
First15
Like John McCain, Mitt Romney, and the dynasty of Bush? Yeah, I know.
Hey, that's something I agree on. Trump never should have printed those trillions of dollars during the lockdowns. However, I also believe that there should never have been a lockdown in the first place.
Telling people to not be violent and to go home?
I have my objections with Trump, too, but I feel like that isn't the point you're trying to make.
Isn't there some pledge in the Republican primaries that demands that, regardless of whoever wins, all the members of the party are required to support them? The same pledge that new sites made a stink about several months ago when Trump refuse to sign it after everything that happened?
Jind
Still a long way to go as the US Supreme Court is heavily lined Conservate 6-3 and could overturn the ruling.
One thing that the Supremes may have to juggle with is if the person has to be CONVICTED for insurrection before being removed from the ballots.
That also may happen next year.
stormcrow
Trump’s a traitor and should be banned in every state.
Having said that, he may be more popular than before, just as Hitler became more popular when people tried to silence him. Don’t underestimate the radical fringe.
Quo Primum
This decision is an attack on democracy.
It denies the people their right to vote for a candidate of their choice, over an alleged crime (a) for which Trump hasn't been convicted, and (b) for which he is actually facing trumped-up, politically motivated charges.
The Supreme Court should, and I predict will, strike this decision down.
Quo Primum
The U.S. Supreme Court, I should clarify.
lincolnman
Horrifying, that someone brags about suspending it...
“Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump wrote in a post on the social network Truth Social".
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/trump-constitution-truth-social/index.html
John
On the contrary; it’s a plain text reading (that so-called “textualists” love to blather about) of the law.
On the other hand, inciting a mob to commit insurrection to overthrow the legally elected government in order to overturn a free and fair election that Trump clearly lost…
That IS the definition of an attack in Democracy.
First15
You DO remember that Time magazine bragged about rigging everything, right: https://archive.ph/xR6pV
Bob Fosse
‘Overstepping’ the constitution. lol you know more about the constitution than Supreme Court judges. I see
Kurumazaka 2
Trump voters see a possibly corrupt and ineffective politician.
we see a fascist surrounding himself with fascists loyal to him not America and leading a fascist movement wholly dedicated to making their fascist all powerful.
that answer your question, Zibala?
First15
You seem to be using the word "Fascist" a lot. Do you even know what a "Fascist" is? Can you explain what makes someone a "Fascist"?
TaiwanIsNotChina
I'm torn: Trump doesn't deserve to be on the ballot nationwide but at the same time we have to have an end to MAGA losers and their fantasies. Not having Trump go down in defeat with receipts is not helping achieve that.
PTownsend
Trump cultists laugh as x-45, his media and fellow Republicans try to further divide and weaken the US; which is not surprising when so many of those just mentioned want dictators like Putin appeased, and actually think it's OK for Russia/Iran and China to take over larger parts of the world.
First15
Who are you quoting? Seriously, could you link which people are saying this?
Bad Haircut
This will backfire big time, and will likely be struck down in any case. The Democrats and their fellow travellers are absolutely petrified of trump, and will use any means fair and foul to prevent him from running.
Sad little people.
itsonlyrocknroll
There is a determination, desperation to remove Donald Trump from a democratic ballot, to make the former President ineligible for the White House.
The 2024 US Presidential election, for the sake of the very constitution, elements within the government are tainting abusing, to wilfully besmirch US judiciary to exclude Trump for a cynical political agenda.
This is a blatant example of political bias to leverage weaponize partisan Justices in an attempt to remove a candidate from the democratic process
The promise that those wish to run for office is equally protected by law undermines democracy and weakens fundamental rights.
First15
Well, yeah, that definition is basically a dictatorship. So could you explain what Trump has done (Specifically, as in provide links to events) that would make him qualify as a Fascist?
itsonlyrocknroll
Trump must be afforded the democratic right to run in the 2024 US Presidential elections, the US people will decide at the ballot box if Donald Trump is eligible or not.
Cards fan
How does the definition of fascist not describe the Republican party? I've already given my definition and it fits the GOP to a T.
Jimizo
If Trump is the candidate and loses, put your money on unfounded gibberish about stolen elections.
I think Trump has claimed large scale fraud in 3 separate elections involving him ( I may have missed some here - corrections welcomed ).
I’d add it’s unusual to find Trump supporters on board with all this peevish, unfounded crackpottery - it’s more a la carte.
Bad Haircut
So, Cards fan, demonstrate with concrete proof that Trump wants to be a dictator.
This should be funny.
Cards fan
He's already said it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/12/11/donald-trump-dictator-one-day-reelected/71880010007/
This should be funny.
John
No. Anyone who commits insurrection and incitement to overthrow the government is disqualified as a plain-text reading of the law clearly says.
First15
Same question, could you explain what the Republican Party has done (Specifically, as in provide links to events) that would make it qualify as a Fascist?
dagon
The metastasis of MAGA non sequitur is a preview of 2024.
There are a few on the right, RINOs as it were like Mitt Romney, an uber Private Equity capitalist head of Bain, who somehow fall under that label.
No appreciation for them but maybe there are a small subsection of the GOP who are suffering some performance anxiety before going full MAGA fascist.
bass4funk
Uhhh, it seems to me that the Dems don’t know the law, that’s a reason why ninth circuit appeals court is always the most overturned court in the country
It wasn’t insurrection, if it were, then they would’ve been charged with an insurrection, show me 1 document that says they were charged with an insurrection
It actually seems that it’s what the Democrats are trying to do right now, trying to deny the voter right to choose candidate of their choice. If the tables were returned, would the Democrats be silent?
itsonlyrocknroll
Donald Trumps protestations of wide spread electoral fraud are misguided, unproven, flawed.
However, this is a matter to be debated and presented to the US electorate to only be decided at the ballot box.
Cards fan
Again, how does the definition of fascism not describe Trump/ the GOP? Happy to answer you question once you've answered mine.
bass4funk
Is that bad?
They are non-irrelevant.
None.
I like how the left use fascist in the context as if Democracy was something they strictly uphold. ROFL.
Bad Haircut
It was - clearly said in jest. But trust the haters to run with it as if it were his MO.
Jimizo
They are absolute trash. No need to be diplomatic about it.
Fair point but again, you can pretty much guarantee that Trump will not accept the results at the ballot box.
Even after he won in 2016, he claimed enormous election fraud which deprived him of winning the popular vote.
No need to elaborate too much on what was found to back this claim up.
dagon
English, do you speak it?
The GOP debates, and the duopoly ones have descended into farce for this reason.
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That being said the Colorado decision will not factor much into the 2024 election, IMHO.
bass4funk
This administration has already done that and his falling and failing poll numbers are showing that. He’s pretty much on life support at this point.
He did that already. Afghanistan, the Mullahs, Maduro, the Saudis? Trump was in office, nobody left him, sitting and waiting for eight hours. They all met with him all of our adversaries, this time they just ignore him.
Which is exactly what Biden allowed to happen, you’re making my point for me.
lincolnman
Hilarious watching our MAGA-friends spin new conspiracy theories and gut-busting lies...
Just face reality - your guy is going to jail for attempting to stage a coup - one that it's author John Eastman admitted violated federal statute...and that four of his inner-circle have flipped and will testified he led...and just wait until Pence gets on the stand...
Then there is the classified stash and steal where he violated a subpoena even after his lawyer told him that was illegal, having another lawyer lie in writing, then obstructed justice by re-hiding his stolen classified and telling his aides to destroy the tapes showing that...
Trump is jail-bound, and you can rant all you want that "it won't happen"...it will, and you should save yourself from the meltdown when it happens and just accept it now...
Cards fan
Was it? Were his comments about suspending the constitution, and immigrants poisoning the blood of our country also said in jest? Very weird how the comments made in "jest" sound eerily similar to the comments made fascists who weren't speaking in jest.
First15
No one can prove a negative: https://infogalactic.com/info/Evidence_of_absence
So, again, can you explain what the Republican Party or Trump has done (Specifically, as in provide links to events) that would make either qualify as Fascistic?
Jimizo
Hard to know with Trump.
It became clear that building a wall, getting rid of the debt, draining the swamp and throwing all illegals out was said in jest but that only became apparent to all later.
He also has a predisposition to telling lies so that has to be factored in.
Cards fan
I'm not asking you to prove a negative. I'm asking you which part of the definition of fascism doesn't sound like Trump/GOP?
Bob Fosse
Just locker room fascism then? Oh that’s alright then. We’d all like a leader who doesn’t mean what he says. That’s ideal.
dagon
Merger of state and corporate power. It has been there since the beginning with Mussolini.
https://politicalresearch.org/2005/01/12/mussolini-corporate-state
And a non sequitur: Who? What? And? Then? thread of logical failure.
John
In ADX Florence with a sentence not running less that that of those convicted of seditious conspiracy. So 19 years.
UChosePoorly
Are we limited to things that happened this week? If so, my entry is the thing about immigrants poisoning the blood of our nation.
First15
That's exactly what you're doing. Asking "...which part of the definition of fascism doesn't...", is asking for a proof of a negative. Absolutely NO ONE can argue what something "is not" another thing as there's ALWAYS an "exception". All that can be proven is what is. So, again, what have they done that would qualify, specifically and with sources, as Fascistic?
Cards fan
Lol no, that is incorrect. proving a negative would be like me saying, "Prove Trump is not a fascist." That would be asking you to prove a negative, but that's not what I'm asking.
1.) I gave you my definition of fascist:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
2.) I then stated that I think this sounds like a pretty apt description of Trump/the GOP.
Now I assume you disagree with my assertion of the definition of fascism is an apt description of Trump/the GOP. So again, I'll ask, which part do you disagree with?
Do you disagree that they put the nation above individuals?
Do you disagree that the GOP doesn't believe in a centralized autocratic government?
Do you disagree they want severe economic and social regimentation?
Do you disagree that they support the forcible suppression of opposition?
Bob Fosse
Huh? Are you sure about that?
First15
Why are you writing in such an obtuse way? It's simple yes or no questions, so let me make it easier to read.
Is it the job of EVERY government to put the nation's survival above an individual? Needs of the many above the needs of the few and all that?
Fixed your double negative, I think you may have goofed asking this one. No.
No
No
Blacklabel
So they found 4 of 7 Democrat judges stupid enough to do this? That’s fun
Blacklabel
This court really thinks if the Supreme Court doesn’t rule by Jan 4th that they can just go ahead and legally proceed with this nonsense?
spoiler alert: no they can’t
Cards fan
Lol good of you to concede I'm not asking you to prove a negative.
Really? Have you not heard of project 2025?
Again, really? The GOP doesn't want to force women to give birth? They don't want to strip healthcare away from massive swaths of the country?
Lol you have presidential candidates saying they want to end leftism in the US. They openly chant about locking up opponents They tried to overturn the elections when they lost.
Sven Asai
Commies always have a general problem with democratic elections and free speech. That's obvious and of course not limited to China, North Korea and such. As we learn here, also the motherland of modern capitalism is already severely infected and drifting away, although it still seems to start small with one state of many more. May US quickly find a fitting and healing cure. The countdown is ticking quickly.