The Colorado Republican Party petitioned the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to overturn a state Supreme Court ruling that bars Donald Trump from appearing on Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot.
The Colorado Republican Party petitioned the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to overturn a state Supreme Court ruling that barred former President Donald Trump from appearing on Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot.
“The Republican Party has been irreparably harmed by the decision” to deem Trump, 77, ineligible for the White House, the appeal, filed on behalf of the Colorado GOP by the nonprofit American Center for Law and Justice, states.
“The state has interfered in the primary election by unreasonably restricting the Party’s ability to select its candidates,” the 45-page petition argues. “As a natural and inevitable result, the state has interfered with the Party’s ability to place on the general election ballot the candidate of its choice. And it has done so based on a subjective claim of insurrection the state lacks any constitutional authority to make.”
In an unprecedented ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court last week ordered that Trump’s name be stricken from state primary ballots, citing the US Constitution’s insurrection clause in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
