The Colorado Supreme Court is removing former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot, saying he is ineligible to be president.

In a stunning and unprecedented decision, the Colorado Supreme Court removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot, ruling that he isn’t an eligible presidential candidate because of the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.”

“Even when the siege on the Capitol was fully underway, he continued to support it by repeatedly demanding that Vice President (Mike) Pence refuse to perform his constitutional duty and by calling Senators to persuade them to stop the counting of electoral votes.

“President Trump’s direct and express efforts, over several months, exhorting his supporters to march to the Capitol to prevent what he falsely characterized as an alleged fraud on the people of this country were indisputably overt and voluntary.”

Ratified after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment says officials who take an oath to support the Constitution are banned from future office if they “engaged in insurrection.” But the wording is vague, it doesn’t explicitly mention the presidency, and has only been applied twice since 1919.

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,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.

Chief Justice Brian Boatright, one of the three dissenters on the seven-member court, wrote that he believes Colorado election law “was not enacted to decide whether a candidate engaged in insurrection,” and said he would have dismissed the challenge to Trump’s eligibility.

LINKS

AP: Colorado Supreme Court bans Trump from the state’s ballot under Constitution’s insurrection clause | @negativenull@startrek.website

Washington Post: Donald Trump is barred from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot, the state Supreme Court rules | @silence7@slrpnk.net

CNBC: Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Trump from 2024 ballot, pauses ruling to allow appeal | @return2ozma

NBC News: Colorado Supreme Court kicks Donald Trump off the state’s 2024 ballot for violating the U.S. Constitution. | 18-24-61-B-17-17-4

CNN: Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from 2024 ballot | A Phlaming Phoenix

CNN:Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from 2024 ballot based on 14th Amendment’s ‘insurrectionist ban’ | @Boddhisatva

New York Times: Trump Is Disqualified From the 2024 Ballot, Colorado Supreme Court Rules | @silence7@slrpnk.net

  • eran_morad@lemmy.world
    46710·
    9 months ago

    I can’t wait for the megathread when he fucking dies. Hopefully, after a few years in a supermax.

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1075·
      9 months ago

      He has access to rich people doctors, we’re stuck with him for at least another decade.

      • ivanafterall@kbin.social
        1002·
        9 months ago

        The comparably-built Jabba the Hutt was apparently nearly 600 years old in Return of the Jedi. He’s sure to surpass Kissinger, at least, in this timeline.

        • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world
          38·
          9 months ago

          While fighting Beldorion on Nam Chorios, Leia Organa Solo remembered from her time in Jabba’s palace that Jabba’s fat hid a great deal more muscle than anyone suspected, and for all his apparent sluggishness, he could move deceptively fast across a room, particularly when his temper was roused.

          From his Wookiepedia page

          • TheFriar
            15·
            9 months ago

            Let’s hope trumps doctor pumps him full of fentanyl.

              • swim@slrpnk.net
                4·
                9 months ago

                Well they could have seen the same celebrity doctor in Hollywood once or something, but there were two different dudes responsible for their individual care when they died; Michael Jackson’s doctor got 4 years in prison for manslaughter, and has no connection to Prince.

                • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  Now you’re making me question my memory but I’m not going to go back and look. I know Prince got hooked back on drugs and I thought it was the same doc that did it. It could have been that they had the same lawyers that took over their estates? There’s some serious connection. I could have sworn it was the doctors.

                  • swim@slrpnk.net
                    2·
                    9 months ago

                    I did look; there’s no discernible doctor connection. Couldn’t find anything about same lawyers either, but that seems more likely to be a true footnote in their histories. The media wanted there to be animosity between the pop stars, but they were neither enemies nor friends. Jackson named his son Prince, but not after the artist. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

        • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          You can have all the best doctors in the world but if you’re addicted to drugs they can’t save you if you OD. I doubt Trump is a heroin junky but you never know!

        • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          9 months ago

          Michael Jackson didn’t die of natural causes. Elvis died in a time when doctors still used chainsaws to open the birth canal wider and help women give birth. I wouldn’t consider those good examples.

      • TheAuthor_13
        121·
        9 months ago

        Not if he keeps up his high-protein meal plan… Wendy’s is awesome once or twice a month, not a day.

          • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            41·
            9 months ago

            Until proven otherwise, I will continue to believe he was silenced (as in: killed, perhaps even at the order of Trump himself somehow, considering how tight he historically was with Epstein). Every single official explanation of the situation I have seen since his murder (and again: I firmly believe it was murder) has simply ignored HUGE questions and discrepancies that are at the absolute core of the matter.

            • Zink@programming.dev
              4·
              9 months ago

              It almost seems like it was done to send a message. Either that or a situation where they had to act when they had the chance even if it would look bad.

              • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                31·
                9 months ago

                The part that’s deeply problematic - and, in fact, should absolutely be considered a constitutional crisis if any evidence can be uncovered to the effect - is that Trump may have ordered the summary, trial-less execution of a person who was fully and completely in the custody of The State, and that the execution was carried out. And the simple fact that everything about the matter is still opaque and was pretty definitely kept quiet from multiple angles indicates clear consciousness of guilt on the parts of whoever was involved.

    • Brutticus
      32·
      9 months ago

      honestly? I hope he dies in the next few months. It would save us all a lot of heart ache. Natural causes. We dont need hm becoming a martyr.

      • 4lan@lemmy.world
        14·
        9 months ago

        all those amphetamines and cheesburgers have to catch up with him sometime. he’s morbidly obese and nearly 80

        • Brutticus
          4·
          9 months ago

          And he rawdogged covid full force.

          But he is an old important white guy

          • 4lan@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 months ago

            rawdogged? didn’t he have access to treatments the general public didn’t? a la Rogan?

            • Brutticus
              1·
              9 months ago

              yeah, but that was before the vaccines were developed. So it was all reactive. He still took an ungloved punch.

    • rauls4
      291·
      9 months ago

      That day I will buy the biggest pig and roast it and invite all my friends to party like it’s 1999.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      He won’t last years in a Supermax. Maybe a few mooches, not a few years.

    • Mamertine@lemmy.world
      17·
      9 months ago

      You make it sound like you’re not looking forward to the “Trump Convicted” and "Trump Sentenced’ mega threads

    • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      151·
      9 months ago

      If convicted, Trump is likely to serve out his federal sentence in Colorado at the Super Max prison at ADX Florence.

    • scripthook@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      By then there will be several digital AI clones and all the supporters will think he is still alive or faked his own death etc

    • gmtom@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      I’m not, you will literally never hear the end of the rampant and insane conspiracy theories from the magats.

    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      I’ve wondered what will happen to the rightoid obsessives when he eats that final hamburger. Who will they latch onto next? None of his kids are as popular, nor are any of the other candidates. The obvious answer is “some corpo dickhead will try to create a new rightwing messiah”, but I really think those types are so out of touch that whoever they created would be universally lambasted.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      38·
      9 months ago

      Y’all need to tamper your expectations. He will NEVER go to jail, never. The best we can hope for is to bog him down in legal cases until he dies by big Mac overdose, but am ex president of the u.s is not going to jail.

    • TheOriginalGregToo@lemmy.world
      241·
      9 months ago

      This comment is how I know you’re a morally superior “good” person.

      Shame on Trump for being such a meanie. Fortunately we have “good” people like you to oppose him.

      • abbenm@lemmy.ml
        24·
        9 months ago

        for being such a meanie

        Lol. You mean literally engaging in insurrection? This is exactly what internet hippo was talking about in their now famous tweet:

        New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they’re not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling “Wow so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now”

        I’d love to see a whole chart of how various crimes get described in a generic way. Describing insurrection as being a meanie probably something that should be printed in framed and hung up in a Hall of Fame honoring greatest all time excuses for federal crimes.

        • TheOriginalGregToo@lemmy.world
          129·
          9 months ago

          If Republicans are using that tactic, it’s only cause they learned it from you.

          Burning down buildings, looting businesses, assaulting people, property damage, physically intimidating people, murder = “summer of love” and “mostly peaceful protests”.

          Black lives matter ಠ_ಠ

          • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            9 months ago

            “They started it”

            When’s the last time that worked out as a defense? 1st grade? Kindergarten?

            Even assuming your point was accurate, that’s a pretty weak argument dude.

            • whofearsthenightEnglish
              3·
              9 months ago

              Even assuming your point was accurate

              Hang on, need to stretch a bit so I can get my head far enough up my ass to see their point.

            • TheOriginalGregToo@lemmy.world
              110·
              9 months ago

              What’s my position, that BLM is a bullshit corrupt organization, shown time and time again through their fraudulent behavior? That criminal acts should not be excused as “mostly peaceful” or “summer of love”? That the left used gaslighting to excuse abhorrent and illegal actions because it was their side doing it?

              Seriously, what’s your point?

          • Zink@programming.dev
            6·
            9 months ago

            Guys, guys, hold up. Did you see this shit? There are OTHER people that committed OTHER crimes too! Why are we even paying attention to the leader of the free world trying to take over one of the biggest and by far the most powerful/dangerous country? Who the hell Is going to fix that window in the front of Macy’s!?

                • TheOriginalGregToo@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  8 months ago

                  The world IS bigger than Seattle, I agree. That being said, Seattle is a key US city, and as such what happens there has cultural and political ramifications for our country as a whole. The fact that you are either dismissing and/or not aware of what happened there is a little troubling and makes me question your qualifications to hold an opinion on the matter.

                  As for the obviously hyperbolic claim that “whole cities were burned down”, that’s absurd. As someone who lives very near Los Angeles, I can tell you that there absolutely was widespread looting, vandalism, protests/riots, and violence. This was not localized and spread both into Orange County as well as the Inland Empire. I know this because 1. I saw it with my own eyes, and 2. I had multiple clients reach out to me and reschedule because they needed to shutter their businesses and board up their store fronts with plywood to prevent them from being smashed and looted.

                  Since we’re sharing articles, how about this one that talks about two individuals who burned down a Wendy’s. Both individuals pleaded guilty of 1st degree arson and as a result got a slap on the wrist ($500 fine and 150 hours of community service). Explain to me how that’s even remotely a reasonable punishment for burning down a building…