In fact, the opinion by Colorado District Judge Sarah B. Wallace is a giant step toward disqualifying Trump from the ballot on constitutional grounds.
In fact, the opinion by Colorado District Judge Sarah B. Wallace is a giant step toward disqualifying Trump from the ballot on constitutional grounds.
It was a Colorado ruling, not Federal. Colorado doesn’t bar the president from running if he’s seditious, but the judge set precedence which will be cited by other states which do have the rule, and the or by suits arguing whether he’s qualified.
The Fourteenth Amendment does, and by a plain reading of the text it should disqualify Trump from being on any ballot. But clearly this judge took the coward’s way out and instead made a judgment on fact without touching how that fact should affect Colorado ballots. The Amendment doesn’t make any provision for the popularity of a candidate with regard to eligibility.
I think they might be crazy like a fox. She just kicked it to another court. Let the appellate court (with the bigger security budget), defend that decision and leave her and her family alone.
I will believe it when I see it
Agreed.
The presidential ballot is state-by-state. Who appears is not, to date, determined at the federal level. An act of Congress could change that, but for now it has to go through the states.
That was kind of my point.