Sarah stated that Donald Trump, former President of the United States, was one of the participants in the rebellion against the US Constitution on January 6, 2021, but nevertheless he cannot be excluded from the Republican Party’s primary candidates for the 2024 presidential elections. Wallace, Colorado District Court Judge in CN that summary According to, but not covered by, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits insurgents from holding another public office.
The judge supported his legal position with a 102-page justification. Thus, Trump is an insurrectionist who incited his extremist supporters with his speech on January 6, 2021, with the intention of occupying the House of Representatives to obstruct the procedure by which Congress accepts Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential elections in November 2020. Therefore, the First Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression, does not apply to speech that He performs in front of an audience that day.
At the same time, the Fourteenth Amendment cannot be applied against him, because it only names Senators, Representatives, and electors for the presidential candidate as those who cannot hold public office again if they have previously held such a term and then participated in the insurrection. The Dodona judge’s decision, as expected, has already caused quite a stir.
According to the resolution, the President of the United States is not an official of the United States. Whatever the intention of the drafters of the Fourteenth Amendment, who were Republicans, they did not intend to include only someone who would serve as president. On the other hand, a recognized Republican constitutional lawyer holds that the interpretation of the Constitution is “indecipherable,” according to which the head of state is not an official in the American state organization.
Of course, Trump’s lawyers consider the judge’s decision a victory for the truth, but those who initiated the removal of the former president will appeal to the Colorado State Supreme Court. The case will inevitably end up in the US Supreme Court, because whichever side loses in the new court’s district, the other side will appeal.
