The Colorado Republican Party says it has filed an appeal with the US Supreme Court to challenge the state Supreme Court’s ruling that Donald Trump is disqualified from appearing on the 2024 ballot by the 14th Amendment, CNN reports.
After a lower court declared Trump had participated in an insurrection but opted not to declare him ineligible after a half dozen voters–five Republicans and an independent–sued to get Trump taken off the ballot. The state Supreme Court then ruled that Trump was ineligible for the ballot based on the 14th Amendment Clause 3, known as the Insurrection Clause but which should be renamed the Maya Angelou Clause (“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”) which bars people who violated their oath to protect and defend the Constitution from ever being elected to a position with a similar oath.
Republicans are set on keeping Trump on the ballot, even though his lead seems to be eroding in early primary states and he’s still facing multiple criminal and civil cases; he’ll likely face more, too, after the judgment in Rudy Giuliani’s Georgia civil defamation case. To prepare for losing an appeal, Colorado’s GOP is considering holding a caucus, not an official primary, to assign their delegates, avoiding the spirit as well as the letter of the law.