Trump(USA EX President)

 Donald Trump, the former president, speaks at a Durham, New Hampshire, campaign event on Saturday, December 16, 2023. The nation's highest court will likely hear arguments to determine whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can continue in the race after ruling on Tuesday, Dec. 19, that Trump is ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution's insurrection clause and removed from the state's presidential primary ballot. (Reba Saldanha, AP Photo/Files)

Invoking the U.S. Constitution's insurrection clause, the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that former President Donald Trump was ineligible for the White House and disqualified him from the state's presidential primary ballot. This decision sets up a potential showdown in the nation's highest court to determine whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination.

It is the first time in history that a presidential contender has been disqualified under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment thanks to the ruling of a court whose judges were all chosen by Democratic governors.

In its 4-3 ruling, the court stated that "a majority of the court holds that Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment."

The highest court in Colorado reversed a district court judge's decision, finding that Trump incited an insurrection for his involvement in the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, but holding that he could not be disqualified from the election due to the ambiguity surrounding the provision's application to the presidency.

The court postponed making a ruling until January 4.

The majority of the court stated, "We do not reach these conclusions lightly." We acknowledge the importance and gravity of the questions that are currently in front of us. We also recognise that it is our grave responsibility to uphold the law, without from fear or favour, and unaffected by the opinions of the general public regarding the choices that the law requires us to make.

Trump's legal team had pledged to promptly challenge any disqualification to the highest court in the country, which has the last say on constitutional issues. His campaign declared that it was preparing a rejoinder to the decision.

Colorado was a 13-point loss for Trump in 2020, and he won't need the state to win the presidency the following year. However, the risk facing the former president is that more electoral officials and courts.

By January 5, which is the deadline for the state to print its presidential primary ballots, Colorado authorities believe the matter needs to be resolved.

In an attempt to disqualify Trump under Section 3, which was created to prevent former Confederates from entering politics after the Civil War, dozens of cases have been filed across the country. It has been in effect since the decade following the Civil War and prohibits the removal from office of anyone who took an oath to "support" the Constitution and subsequently "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against it.

The plaintiffs have won in their first case, which is in Colorado. District Judge Sarah B. Wallace concluded following a week-long hearing in November that Trump had, in fact, "engaged in insurrection".