Colorado voters sue to disqualify Donald Trump from 2024 presidential ballot
Colorado voters sue to disqualify Donald Trump from 2024 presidential ballot
A group of Colorado voters filed suit Wednesday to keep former President Donald Trump off the state’s ballot in 2024.
Yes, this should be done in every state. It's too bad that it even has to be something where people have to sue over this. Isn't this just following the law? Shouldn't he be prevented from being on the ballot automatically?
A lawsuit is a logical step. While it is clearly written in our constitution about these kinds of things, there is little to no legal precedent to use as additional guidance. We are forming history right at this moment.
I would also speculate that while Trump has been formally charged, he has not been officially "found guilty" yet. Yeah, our legal system can be too slow sometimes.
I am not a lawyer and just your average internet idiot. I could be wrong!
In this case, everyone knows he is guilty and everyone knows there is a subset of people that will still vote for him, given the chance. A lawsuit now will beat him at his own game of tying this issue up in court even through an election.
I would also speculate that while Trump has been formally charged, he has not been officially “found guilty” yet.
That's the point of invoking the 14th though, it doesn't require a guilty verdict. It was originally used against ranking members of the confederates to prevent them from holding office even though very few of them were ever convicted. Specifically section 3:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.