“Colorado Supreme Court ruling will distort the 2024 presidential election.”
Suspension of qualification restriction ruling… It is possible to participate in the competition
Pay attention to whether the Federal Supreme Court judges Article 14, Paragraph 3 of the Constitution
The Republican Party of the United States has appealed the decision by the state of Colorado to restrict former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for president.
According to CBS, etc. on the 27th (local time), the Colorado Republican Party appealed to the Federal Supreme Court, disobeying the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that did not recognize former President Trump’s qualifications as a public official.
The Republican Party’s lawyers explained the reason for the appeal by saying, “The Colorado Supreme Court fundamentally changed the American democratic process by excluding the leading Republican candidate from the primary and general elections.”
“Unless the Colorado Supreme Court ruling is overturned, any voter in any other jurisdiction will have the power to file a lawsuit to disqualify a political candidate,” he said. “It will cause the court to become engulfed in political debate,” he argued.
With this appeal, the effect of the ruling on former President Trump’s candidacy is suspended until the 4th of next month, the day before the deadline for printing ballots for the Colorado primary, and the end of the Supreme Court hearing, so former President Trump cannot run in the primary election. It came to be.
Former President Trump also previously announced that he would appeal after the Colorado Supreme Court ruling.
On the 19th, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 that former President Trump was ineligible to run in the Colorado Republican primary in a lawsuit challenging his candidacy.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court ruled, “Former President Trump incited and encouraged (rioters) to commit violence and illegal acts in order to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.” The purpose is to acknowledge former President Trump’s role in the attack on the U.S. Congress on January 6, 2021.
However, the effective date of the ruling was postponed until after the 4th of next month, allowing former President Trump to run for office if he appealed to the Supreme Court before the list of candidates for the primary election was confirmed.
Colorado is a region where former President Trump lost by 13 percentage points during the 2020 presidential election, and because it does not need to secure an electoral college, its impact on the overall election campaign is minimal.
However, if the Federal Supreme Court also makes a decision to disqualify a candidate, it will open the way for other state courts or election commissions to restrict former President Trump’s candidacy in key swing states.
With this appeal, attention is being paid to whether the Federal Supreme Court will make a judgment on whether Article 14, Section 3 of the Constitution can be applied to the office of president.
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment stipulates that if a public official who has sworn to support the Constitution participates in an insurrection, he or she may not hold public office again.
This provision was adopted three years after the end of the American Civil War, and was introduced to ban Confederate officers from working for the U.S. government at the time. However, as of approximately 155 years later, there has been no clear definition of how this provision should be interpreted.
Ashraf Ahmed, a professor at Columbia Law School and an election law expert, said, “Presidential elections are the thing the U.S. Supreme Court is most reluctant to get involved in.” He said he expected the Supreme Court to want a speedy hearing, but the justices did not define Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, making procedural changes difficult. It was predicted that a ruling could be made based on the evidence.
Source: Donga
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