Off The Ballot!

Colorado booted Trump from the primary ballot.

Republicans are calling it election interference and are blaming President Joe Biden.

Biden never instigated an insurgency against his own government while in office.

Many Republicans believe Biden purposely set up the Jan. 6 rioters. They believe his Justice Department was responsible for the arrest of those who participated in the insurrection.

The fact is, in the last two weeks of Donald J. Trump's presidency, he protested the U.S. Congress certifying the election results for Biden. He called upon then vice president Mike Pence to reject the results and decertify ballots in six key states. He called upon Republicans in the House and Senate to vote against certification. This led to his infamous "fight like hell" speech. His supporters rioted at the Capitol and caused damage. They didn't achieve the goal. Over 1,500 people were identified and arrested.

Some were celebrities, former police, former military and even elected officials.

As the riot happened, Trump refused to call the National Guard. He sat in the dining room of The White House watching the chaos unfold. It took over three hours and during that time, Trump recorded a pretaped message demanding the rioters go home but reiterated the election was stolen. He was impeached by the House and acquitted by the Senate. Republicans refuse to hold him accountable.

He is still the frontrunner in the Republican presidential nomination race.

By default, a Republican primary candidate won the state of Colorado, it's just not Donald J. Trump. He is lucky they didn't throw him off the general election ballot.

Trump fumes at the state Republican Party and Colorado Supreme Court for disqualifying him from the 2024 primary ballot. Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Chris Christie will be allowed on the Republican Party primary ballot.

When Trump encouraged his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol to protest Joe Biden being certified president, he intentionally wanted a violent insurrection.

Colorado saw that as a perfect example of a constitutional violation and sought to remove him from the primary ballot. The Colorado Supreme wrote in a 213 page briefing, that stated that Trump clearly and willingly sought to disrupt the 2020 election.

Trump will certainly fast track it to the Supreme Court and get a federal ruling

The Colorado Supeme Court handed down a 4-to-3 decision that set off a firestorm of praise and anger. On Tuesday, the decision stated that Trump had engaged in insurrection and therefore barred by the 14th Amendment from holding federal office.

“This is a major and extraordinary holding from a state supreme court,” Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, wrote on the Election Law Blog. “Never in history has a presidential candidate been excluded from the ballot under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. United States Supreme Court review seems inevitable, and it exerts major pressure on the court.”

The majority on Tuesday said every key legal issue came out against Trump.

“The sum of these parts is this: President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president,” the majority said in an unsigned opinion, saying that his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results amounted to engaging in an insurrection and that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, ratified after the Civil War, bars insurrectionists from federal office, including the presidency.

Section 3 of the Civil War-era 14th Amendment says: “No person shall ... hold any office, civil or military, under the United States ... who, having previously taken an oath ... as an officer of the United States, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

Courts have ruled against similar efforts to get Trump banned from the ballot in Arizona, Michigan and Minnesota. The plaintiffs challenging Trump’s eligibility in Michigan filed an appeal to that state’s high court on Monday.

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Tuesday said the Republican Party will help Trump in his legal fight.

“This irresponsible ruling will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and our legal team looks forward to helping fight for a victory,” she said on X. “The Republican nominee will be decided by Republican voters, not a partisan state court.”

The Colorado Republican Party, meanwhile, began fundraising off the court’s ruling in a post on X, asking supporters to help "keep Trump on the ballot and fight this election interference now."