Following the ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that Donald Trump was not qualified to run for president, Republicans in the state have filed an appeal with the US Supreme Court.
He will continue to be listed on the Colorado primary ballot as a result of the appeal.
Due to his suspected involvement in the attack on the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, the former president was barred from running for office in the state last week.
As the front-runner in the Republican primary, Mr. Trump is anticipated to represent the party in the US election in 2024.
“Fundamentally changing the course of American democracy,” the Colorado Republican Party’s legal team charged the state Supreme Court in their appeal, according to CBS News, a US partner of the BBC.
The ruling, they continued, would “distort” the presidential election of 2024 and “mire courts henceforth in political controversies over nebulous accusations of insurrection”.
According to a US constitutional provision known as the 14th Amendment that forbids anybody involved in “insurrection or rebellion” from holding public office, Colorado is the only state where Mr. Trump has been removed from the ballot.
Since it was initially enacted after the American Civil War, this clause had never been invoked before.
The state’s highest court determined last week, by a vote of 4–3, that the former president had incited an uprising when his followers stormed the Capitol. Mr. Trump has disavowedly blamed the unrest on many occasions.
The Colorado secretary of state was ordered by the ruling to bar Mr. Trump from participating in the state’s Republican primary on March 5. However, this doesn’t stop Mr. Trump from campaigning in other states.
Similar legal actions in Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Michigan to strike the Republican front-runner from the ballot have been unsuccessful.
When the US Supreme Court will hear the case and render a ruling is unknown. Its decisions will most likely be implemented nationally.
It is anticipated that Mr. Trump’s team would file an appeal against the Colorado verdict.
Each party searches each state for a presidential nominee in the primary elections.
In 2024, when he seeks the Republican nomination once more, a string of criminal cases will hinder Donald Trump’s candidacy.
He claims the legal system has been weaponized to prevent him from becoming president and rejects all of the accusations.
