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A Colorado judge has rejected an attempt to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot based on the claim that he is constitutionally barred from office because of the January 6 insurrection.
In my defense, I hadn’t read the ruling, I was going off what the article said. However, having now quickly looked over the ruling, she rules both positions.
For Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to apply to Trump this Court must find both that the Presidency is an “office . . . under the United States” and that Trump took an oath as “an officer of the United States” “to support the Constitution of the United States.”
And then she goes on to rule, as you note, that he did not take an oath to support the COTUS, but also before that
The Court holds that it is unpersuaded that the drafters intended to include the highest office in the Country in the catchall phrase “office . . . under the United States.”
So I guess we were both right, and both wrong. Good talk. I learned something today. Thank you.
In my defense, I hadn’t read the ruling, I was going off what the article said. However, having now quickly looked over the ruling, she rules both positions.
And then she goes on to rule, as you note, that he did not take an oath to support the COTUS, but also before that
So I guess we were both right, and both wrong. Good talk. I learned something today. Thank you.