Both Trump’s team and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which filed the initial complaint, have appealed to the state’s high court.
Following a ruling in Colorado last week against efforts to keep 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump from the primary ballot in the state, the Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to take up the case.
District Judge Sarah Wallace ruled that Trump had engaged in insurrection by inciting the January 6 riots, but said that the 14th Amendment on holding office after engaging in “insurrection or rebellion” did not apply to the the office of the president, according to The Hill. Trump has not been charged with inurrection in any of the cases against him.
Both Trump’s team and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which filed the initial complaint, have appealed to the state’s high court.
Trump’s team has appealed to the court over several of Wallace’s findings, including that he "engaged" in the January 6 riot, according to CNN.
Trump’s team said that Wallace had reached the "correct" conclusion in the trial, but asked that the high court overturn other decisions she made, arguing she "committed multiple grave jurisdictional and legal errors … creating new, unprecedented, and unsupported legal standards in applying" the constitutional disqualification clause.
They said in the filing that they wanted the matter corrected now because of the possibility of "further review" in the case down the road.
"The district judge rightly rejected the far-left’s efforts to keep President Trump off the ballot, but she then went out of her way to wrongly criticize the President. We’ve asked the Colorado Supreme Court to strike her wrong-headed speculation, because it goes far beyond her jurisdiction," Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement to NBC.
Attorney Sean Grimsley for the group of voters said that he was "hopeful" his appeal would overturn the "one issue" Wallace "got wrong" on who the ban applies to.
"We’re going to pursue our claims in court. I think we put on a very good case, the judge issued a very detailed and thorough opinion – it took until page 95 of a 102-page opinion for her to rule against us on anything, so we’re just going to continue forward. We’re going to go to the Colorado Supreme Court and see what happens there."
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