Colorado Supreme Court to debate if former President Donald Trump can be on 2024 ballot
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The Colorado Supreme Court will debate whether former President Donald Trump is eligible to appear on Colorado's 2024 ballot.
Colorado voters filed a lawsuit insisting Trump be disqualified from Colorado ballots. A Denver District Court ruled Trump was eligible to be on the state's presidential primary ballot in March, and that decision is what's being appealed to the state Supreme Court, which will host oral arguments Wednesday, Dec. 6.
The originating lawsuit was filed by six Colorado voters who argued Trump should be disqualified from office under a post-Civil War-era clause of the 14th Amendment barring anyone who engaged in insurrection from holding higher office again after taking an oath to uphold the Constitution.
Sean Grimsley, the attorney representing the Colorado voters who filed the original lawsuit, stated at the mid-November Denver District Court hearing that the evidence was clear.
"We are here because, for the first time in our nation's history, the president of the United States engaged in an insurrection and now he wants to be president again," Grimsley said.
"The Constitution does not allow that."
An amicus brief co-led by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey asked the Colorado Supreme Court to keep former President Donald Trump on the ballot for the state's Presidential Primary and General Elections.
An amicus brief is a legal document that contains information related to a case and is delivered to a court of law by a person our group not directly involved in the respective case.
“We need to protect the integrity of our elections, and actions like this undermine the right of the citizens to choose who they want to represent them in every level of government,” Morrisey said in a Wednesday press release.
Alabama, Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming joined the West Virginia-led brief.
This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: Colorado Supreme Court to determine Trump's eligibility for ballot
