The Supreme Court of Colorado recently held in Anderson v. Griswold that President Donald J. Trump should not appear on Colorado’s 2024 Republican Primary ballot because President Trump is prohibited from serving as President under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution because President Trump engaged in an insurrection.
The holding that President Trump in ineligible to serve as President and therefore should not be on the 2024 Colorado Republican Primary ballot is dangerous, wrong, and unconstitutional.
President Trump has not been charged in any court of engaging in insurrection, must less been convicted of engaging in insurrection. It is also important to note that on February 13th, 2021, President Trump was acquitted by the United States Senate on the charge of incitement of insurrection.
This ruling is unconstitutional and unfair. In the United States of America, we the people get to choose our leaders, and activist judges should not be allowed to manipulate the judicial system in order to further their own personal political goals.
As Americans, we should all be outraged that there are activist judges engaging in politics from the bench in order to help one candidate by taking away the right of citizens to express their vote at the ballot box.
If a foreign court barred a candidate running for president from the ballot in order to protect the incumbent president, the State Department would be calling for the imposition of sanctions against that country. Yet, that is essentially what is happening here at home.
If this erroneous decision is allowed to stand, a dangerous precedent would be set.
The United States Supreme Court must grant certiorari in Anderson v. Griswold and overturn the holding of the Colorado Supreme Court that President Trump should not appear on 2024 Colorado Republican Primary ballot.
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