Conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Donald Trump nominee, is likely to face significant pressure should the former president appeal the Colorado Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision that disqualified him from the 2024 ballot in the state.
The decision is the first by a U.S. court to find Trump ineligible to run for office again because of his involvement in the January 6 storming of the Capitol. A majority of the Colorado justices ruled in a 4-3 decision that the former president “is disqualified from holding the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.” Those four justices were all appointed by Democratic governors.
Crucially, the historic decision referenced a previous ruling by Gorsuch, before he became a SCOTUS justice, which found that “a state’s legitimate interest in protecting the integrity and practical functioning of the political process permits it to exclude from the ballot candidates who are constitutionally prohibited from assuming office.”
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