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The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot.
A Colorado Supreme Court has barred former United States President Donald Trump from the state's ballot in the upcoming presidential elections. Mr Trump has immediately appealed the decision, setting up a likely showdown at the U-S Supreme Court, which will decide if the Republican frontrunner will be the first candidate to be deemed ineligible for the White House.
This is the latest in a long line of legal challenges facing former-President Donald Trump as he gears up to run for the White House for a third time, next year facing his long-time rival Joe Biden
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump was to be struck off the ballot citing a post-Civil War era clause in the Constitution that was meant to stop Confederates holding office
The justices in the 7-3 majority wrote in part that because Trump is “disqualified” it would be wrong to put him on the ballot.