During his Tuesday night speech at a campaign event in Iowa, Mr. Trump did not mention the decision. However, in a campaign fundraising email, he wrote, “this is how dictatorships are born” to supporters.
In response, the Colorado Republican Party declared that if the decision was upheld, it would not participate in the state’s primary elections.
Mr. Trump made no note of the decision in his speech at a campaign event in Iowa on Tuesday night. But he sent supporters an email claiming that “this is how dictatorships are born” in an effort to raise money for the campaign.
The Colorado Republican Party responded by announcing that it will boycott the state’s primary elections in the event that the ruling was maintained.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), the group that brought the complaint, praised the ruling. “Regardless of political affiliation, every citizen registered to vote should not be denied the right to support our former president and the individual who is the leader in every poll of the Republican primary,” he said.
On the campaign trail Mr Trump’s Republican primary rivals also assailed the ruling, with Vivek Ramaswamy pledging to withdraw his name from the ballot if Mr Trump’s candidacy is not reinstated.
Mr Trump, speaking at a campaign event in Iowa on Tuesday night, did not address the ruling. But a fundraising email sent by his campaign to supporters said “this is how dictatorships are born”.
The Colorado Republican Party also responded, saying it would withdraw from the state’s primary process if the ruling was allowed to stand.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), the group that brought the case, welcomed the ruling.
“It is not only historic and justified, but is necessary to protect the future of democracy in our country,” the group’s president, Noah Bookbinder, said in a statement.
Following the American Civil War, the 14th Amendment was ratified. When southern states re-joined the Union, Section 3 was designed to prevent secessionists from taking on new positions in government.
It was applied to former members of Congress Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, and Alexander Stephens, his vice president. Since then, its use has been infrequent.
Colorado was a hugely defeatist state for Mr. Trump in the most recent presidential election. But, there might be major issues for Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign if judges other states with higher voter turnout decided similarly to Tuesday’s decision.
The former president’s attorneys contended that he shouldn’t be disqualified since he wasn’t responsible for the US Capitol riot during a one-week trial held in Colorado last month.
