In fact, the opinion by Colorado District Judge Sarah B. Wallace is a giant step toward disqualifying Trump from the ballot on constitutional grounds.

  • spaceghoti@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.