Former President Donald Trump hits back amidst the exclusions from the electoral maps of at least two states that jeopardize his candidacya for the 2024 elections. The former president announced this to the US Supreme Court in the last hours “The Colorado Supreme Court has no authority to reject it.” a spot on the state ballot.
Trump, the Republicans' main favorite for the party's nomination, was expelled over his role in the attacks on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. used as a plan to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters across the country” said.
The Colorado Supreme Court decided this on December 19th Trump is ineligible to be president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits any person who has served as an “officer of the United States” and who has previously taken an oath in support of the Constitution of the United States from holding “any office… under the United States” while “participating in an insurrection.” was involved.” “. The provision was passed by Congress in 1866 and ratified in 1868 and was originally intended to disqualify people who had done so They were federal (or state) officials before the Civil War and had sworn to uphold the Constitution, but later served in the Confederacy. The service ban can only be overcome with a two-thirds majority of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Well, the crux of the matter is whether or not this Section 3 applies to Trumpand that is the mess that the Supreme Court is trying to resolve on a date that began this Thursday under the guise of “reviewing” the decision of a lower state court.
Trump went to the Supreme Court urging the justices to accept the review and summarily overturn the Colorado Supreme Court's decision without additional arguments or oral hearings and “return to voters the right to vote for the candidate of their choice.” That's what the former president argued Congress, not state courts, should decide whether someone is eligible to run for president. But even if the state courts played a role in that decision, his defense continued: “The Colorado Supreme Court was wrong: Section 3 does not apply because The President is not an “official of the United States” and the presidency is not an “office of the United States.”
Trump also questioned the Colorado Supreme Court's characterization of the events of January 6 as an “insurrection.” Citing the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 as an example, it stated: “In the context of America's history of violent political protests, January 6 was not an insurrection and therefore there is no justification for invoking Section 3. In addition, Trump added: He “never told his supporters to enter the Capitol.”and instructed them to protest only “peacefully and patriotically.”
The 270 electoral votes
These decisions by the states of Maine and Colorado in the United States to expel Trump marks an unprecedented moment in the changing American political landscape. They reveal the growing divisions within the country's political sphere, where increasing political polarization and legal disputes increasingly dominate the narrative of national governance and public discourse.
For some, the electoral system itself may be the most damaged, as voices that appear to be a “rigged election” are increasing and could lead more people to believe that the electoral systems are unfair, some analysts say. Even Gavin NewsomGovernor of California, one of the 30 states that refused to remove him from the ballot, said: “There is no doubt that Donald Trump is a threat to our freedoms and even for our democracy, but in California We defeat the candidates in the elections“Anything else is a political distraction,” he added.
It is also not entirely clear what would happen at the level of the 270 delegates needed to win the United States presidential election via the Electoral College, but as the Cortes make their decisions, the clock is ticking in favor of polarization. State races for the Republican Party's presidential nomination begin Jan. 15.
