A state judge in Colorado has determined that former president Donald Trump “engaged in insurrection” by inciting the violent assault on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. However, Judge Sarah Wallace found that despite this, the 14th Amendment did not apply in the case of Trump to keep him off the 2024 ballot in the state. The judge said that “president” was absent from the list of positions to which the provision applies along with the specific oath he had taken as such.
This was the first case to go to trial that has been brought by voters and academic groups, including some conservatives, to have Trump removed from state ballots under the rarely used amendment to the United States Constitution. President Noah Bookbinder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said they will appeal the decision handed down by the state district court judge in Denver.
The ruling is the latest setback in a wider effort to disqualify Trump from being on the 2024 general election ballot. The legal arguments cite the provisions of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.
HUGE NEWS: the judge in our 14th Amendment case rule that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection as president! https://t.co/H0BPSFhwjt
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) November 18, 2023
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