BREAKING: Vivek to submit amicus brief to SCOTUS in favor of keeping Trump on Colorado ballot

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy annouced on Wednesday's stream of Timcast that he would be submitting an amicus brief to the Supreme Court arguing to overturn the Colorado decision taking former President Donald Trump off the 2024 Republican primary ballot. 

Ramaswamy said in the livestream that he had not planned to make his intentions known, but that "it's the right thing to do" for America.

"I am submitting an amicus brief to the Supreme Court arguing for why they need to overturn Colorado's disastrous decision to try to keep Donald Trump off the ballot," Ramaswamy said. "It's the right thing to do for this country. As somebody who is trained in the law, I feel a sense of obligation to do that." 

The Supreme Court annouced last week that they would take up the case after Trump and his legal team appealed the move. Oral arguments are expected in early February.

After the initial Colorado decision to take Trump off the ballot, there have been several other states that have attempted to do the same. Maine's secretary of state Shenna Bellows removed Trump from that state's ballot after the Colorado decision. Other states, like Michigan and California, considered the measure but did not go through with it.

The argument used against Trump's candidacy is section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which states that an individual who is guilty of insurrection is not able to be elected to office. It was put in place after the Civil War to prevent Confederate leaders from attaining federal elected office. In Colorado, a lower court ruled that Trump could not be removed, but in so doing, stated that Trump had committed an "insurrection" in his actions after the 2020 presidential election.

He called those results into question and sought legal remedies. The accusation is that the J6 protest at the Capitol, during which an unarmed Trump supporter was shot and killed by police, was an insurrection and that Trump was the inciter of that action. On appeal to Colorado's highest court, justices used the lower court's claim of insurrection to justify removing Trump from the ballot. Trump's campaign has appealed that to the Supreme Court.