The Colorado Supreme Court is hearing the 14th Amendment challenge to former President Donald Trump’s candidacy Wednesday afternoon.
Trump’s team and the group trying to remove him from the Colorado ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban” appealed different parts of the lower-court ruling, which found that Trump “engaged in an insurrection” on January 6, 2021, but that the ban doesn’t apply to the presidency.
Many experts believe the case, which was brought by Republican and independent voters in coordination with a liberal-leaning watchdog group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, will eventually reach the US Supreme Court in some fashion.
Colorado District Court Judge Sarah Wallace issued a stunning 102-page decision last month, that