The National Republican Senatorial Committee has filed an appeal to the SCOTUS aimed at keeping Trump on Colorado ballots.
The attempts to reverse the decision to disqualify Donald Trump from the presidential ballots in Colorado via the U.S. Supreme Court have been condemned by a legal expert.
Joe Dudek, a trial and appellate attorney, hit out at the arguments made by the National Republican Senatorial Committee as they submitted their legal argument to the country’s highest court as to why Trump, the frontrunner in the GOP primary, should remain on the presidential ballots in Colorado.
The appeal from the Republican Senate campaign group is separate to one filed by Trump himself after he was banned from running for president in Colorado, following the state’s Supreme Court ruling he violated the Constitution’s insurrection clause with his actions around the January 6 attack.
In a historic ruling in late December, the Colorado Supreme Court banned Trump from running for president in the state for violating Section 3 of the 14th Amendment during the January 6 riot. The amendment, introduced in the wake of the Civil War, states that a person who «engaged in insurrection or rebellion» after taking an oath of office to support the Constitution should be barred from running for office again.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Dudek suggested that the arguments put forward by NRSC are «unsalvageable» and will not help the former president’s attempt to remain on the Colorado ballot.
