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At SCOTUS, Colorado’s Justice Carlos Samour looms in Trump ballot disqualification arguments
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save During Thursday’s oral arguments before the nation’s highest court about Donald Trump’s constitutional eligibility to remain on the ballot, the justices explicitly and indirectly channeled the member of Colorado’s Supreme Court who wrote the most impassioned critique of the legal effort to disqualify Trump. Justice…
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Colorado Republicans call case against Trump ‘unreal,’ Democrats say SCOTUS should bar ‘insurrectionist’
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Republicans and Democrats in Colorado expectedly hewed along partisan lines following Thursday’s oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, which is weighing whether former president Donald Trump should be disqualified from the state ballot for allegedly engaging in an “insurrection” that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. “It would be a…
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In their own words: Colorado justices argue for or against disqualifying Donald Trump
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Four of Colorado’s justices concluded on Tuesday that Donald Trump is ineligible for the presidency because he engaged in “insurrection” and that a rarely-invoked constitutional provision applies, indeed, to the president. Three justices dissented, alleging that the trial failed to afford the former president due…
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Colorado’s justices disqualified Trump from the ballot. Now what? | ANALYSIS
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Roughly a decade ago, the 10th Circuit Court entertained a case about a New York resident who wished to become America’s next president. The man wanted his name on Colorado’s presidential ballot for the 2012 election. But there was one problem. He was a naturalized…
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Trump disqualified from 2024 ballot, Colorado Supreme Court rules
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The Colorado Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of ordering Donald Trump removed from the 2024 presidential ballot on Tuesday, finding him constitutionally ineligible to hold future office. Trump’s campaign said it would appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Dec. 19, unsigned opinion was the first by any state supreme court to…
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As appeals flow into Colorado Supreme Court, Trump disqualification ruling faces scrutiny
On Sunday, lawyers for the petitioners requested the Colorado Supreme Court to review District Court Judge Sarah B. Wallace’s decision