2024-01-04 00:08:55
– Donald Trump appeals to the Supreme Court over the Colorado decision
Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a Colorado ruling declaring him ineligible to run in the upcoming presidential election.
Published today at 1:08 a.m.
The Colorado and Maine decisions only relate to Republican primaries held in those two states.
AFP
Former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a decision by Colorado’s highest court, which caused a sensation by declaring him ineligible for president because of his actions during the storming of the Capitol.
A second state, Maine, also considered that the great favorite of the Republicans for the presidential election next November was “unfit for the office of president” because of the attack on the Capitol, carried out in 2021 by supporters of Donald Trump who contested the election of Democrat Joe Biden.
Donald Trump has already appealed the Maine decision. On Wednesday, his lawyers asked the United States Supreme Court – three of whose nine justices were appointed by the ex-president – to review the Colorado case and invalidate the decision of the Supreme Court of that state from West.
“Rebellion” or “insurrection”
According to them, the decision, if upheld, “will mark the first time in the history of the United States that the judicial system has prevented voters from casting their ballots for the main candidate of a major party in the presidential election.” “The question of eligibility to serve as President of the United States is rightly reserved for Congress – not the state courts – to consider and decide,” they added.
Both Maine and Colorado’s decisions relied on the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which excludes from public liability anyone who, following taking an oath to defend the Constitution, engages in acts of “rebellion” or ” insurrection”.
Donald Trump’s lawyers also argued in their motion that Article 3 of this amendment did not apply to him as president, that January 6 was not an “insurrection” and that the tycoon did not “in no way participated in an insurrection”.
No proof
The Maine and Colorado decisions only relate to Republican primaries held in those two states. As long as legal proceedings continue, ballots will still have to include the name of the ex-president.
On January 6, 2021, hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump violently stormed the Capitol, the sanctuary of American democracy, to try to prevent the certification of the victory of his opponent, Joe Biden. Donald Trump and his most fervent supporters still dispute, without proof, the results of the 2020 election.
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