*Several Republican officials want President Joe Biden off state ballots for the 2024 election after the recent Trump ruling.
We reported previously via CNN that the Colorado Supreme Court removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot on Tuesday, ruling that he is an ineligible presidential candidate because of the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.”
The 4-3 ruling will be placed on hold until January 4, pending Trump’s appeal to the US Supreme Court, which could settle the matter for the nation.
The state Supreme Court decision only applies to Colorado, but the historic ruling will roil the 2024 presidential campaign.
“Seeing what happened in Colorado makes me think — except we believe in democracy in Texas — maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas for allowing 8 million people to cross the border since he’s been president, disrupting our state far more than anything anyone else has done in recent history,” Lone Star State Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Tuesday night, New York Post reports.
“Could we just say that Biden can’t be on the ballot because he let in 8 million illegals into the country, and violated the Constitution?” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asked Wednesday at a campaign event in Iowa.
“I think the US Supreme Court is going to reverse that,” DeSantis said, according to the Post. “They’re doing all this stuff to basically solidify support in the primary for him, get him into the general. And the whole general election is going to be all this legal stuff.”
As CNN reports, the court rejected Trump’s free speech claims, writing: “President Trump’s speech on January 6 was not protected by the First Amendment.”
“President Trump did not merely incite the insurrection,” the majority wrote in its unsigned opinion. “Even when the siege on the Capitol was fully underway, he continued to support it by repeatedly demanding that Vice President (Mike) Pence refuse to perform his constitutional duty and by calling Senators to persuade them to stop the counting of electoral votes. These actions constituted overt, voluntary, and direct participation in the insurrection.”
As the New York Post reports, former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis reacted to the ruling on X, writing, “What is absolutely wild about this opinion from the Colorado Supreme Court is that it contains no limiting principle.”
“Republicans should immediately file suit in Colorado to remove Biden from the ballot, citing his failure to secure the border and allowing an invasion falls within the Court’s broad definition of ‘engaging in insurrection,’” she added. “Challenge this nonsense.”
The Trump campaign said it will “swiftly file an appeal” of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision, per CNN.
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