Trump appeals Colorado ruling disqualifying him from 2024 ballot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Trump supporters stormed the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 to block Congress certifying Joe Biden's 2020 election winThe Colorado case was considered the one with the greatest chance of success because it was filed by a Washington D.C.-based liberal group with ample legal resources - and all seven of the Colorado high court justices were appointed by Democrats.
52% : Sean Grimsley, an attorney for the plaintiffs seeking to disqualify Trump in Colorado, said on a legal podcast last week that he hopes the nation's highest court hurries once it accepts the case, as he expects it will.
51% : I urge the U.S. Supreme Court to act quickly given the upcoming presidential primary election'Former Trump attorney Jay Sekulow (pictured, left) filed a petition for Colorado's Republican Party appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court the Colorado state Supreme Court's 4-3 ruling to keep Donald Trump off the 2024 ballotFormer Trump attorney Jay Sekulow's conservative American Center for Law & Justice filed a petition last Wednesday that would overturn Colorado's controversial decision.
47% : A separate challenge put a pause on the ruling and will keep Trump on the ballot unless the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the lower court's rulingColorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Trump's case on Tuesday, saying there are a 'number of important deadlines' in the state's election calendar and the matter must be resolved quickly.
47% : Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced that Trump will for the time being remain on the ballot, which goes to print on January 5 - unless the Supreme Court affirms the lower court's ruling or otherwise declines to take on the appeal.
46% : Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (pictured on July 8, 2022) announced that Trump will remain on the ballot, but voiced her backing of her state's Supreme Court ruling, saying: 'The Colorado Supreme Court got it right...
45% : Trump says he also still plans to appeal the ruling to the nation's highest court.
41% : Michigan, a key swing state, ruled that Trump can remain on the ballot.
40% : The filing was posted on the website of a group run by Jay Sekulow, a former attorney for Trump representing the Colorado Republican Party who announced he was filing the appeal Wednesday.
39% : The unprecedented constitutional questions in the case haven't split on neatly partisan lines with several prominent conservative legal theorists among the most vocal advocates of disqualifying Trump under Section 3.
36% : Although Colorado's 10 Electoral College votes are unlikely to go to the Republican candidate anyway in the general election - and the state isn't highly important in the GOP primary - the ruling could set precedent for a slew of other states looking to remove Trump from the ballot.
36% : If Trump ends up off the ballot in Colorado, it would have minimal effect on his campaign because he doesn't need the state, which he lost by 13 percentage points in 2020, to win the Electoral College in the presidential election.
35% : The Colorado high court ruled that applies to Trump after he encouraged his supporters to engage in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
34% : The Colorado Republican Party filed last week asking the U.S. Supreme Court to look at the lower court's ruling that disqualified Trump from running on the presidential ballot in the state due to his role in the January 6 Capitol riot.
33% : 'Donald Trump engaged in insurrection and was disqualified under the Constitution from the Colorado Ballot,' Griswold said in a press release.
30% : Trump has been scathing all over his Truth Social account and at his rallies about the cases, calling them 'election interference.'
28% : 'Today, we just filed a petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court's dangerously flawed twisting of the 14th Amendment to ban President Trump from the ballot,' wrote the father-son duo, who are representing Colorado's GOP.
27% : The Colorado Supreme Court claims Trump engaged in an insurrection and therefore under clause 3 of the 14th Amendment is disqualified from running for office - but Republicans argue the ex-president has never been charged with insurrection.
26% : Trump was put back on the presidential ballot in Colorado after the GOP appeal put a stay on the ruling that removed him under the Constitution's 'insurrection' clause.
24% : The state's Supreme Court ruled last month that under clause three of the 14th Amendment, Trump cannot appear on the ballot because he 'engaged in insurrection.'
24% : 'The Colorado people have embarrassed our nation with what they did,' Trump said on Sean Hannity's radio show.
23% : Donald Trump is officially challenging the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that disqualifies him from appearing on the presidential ballot in the state.
22% : Louisiana became one of the latest states to see a lawsuit filed attempting to keep Trump off the ballot related to the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
21% : Donald Trump is challenging a Colorado Supreme Court ruling to remove the ex-president from the state's 2024 ballot.
13% : Maine's Secretary of State followed suit and also moved to boot Trump from the ballot in the state last week, which Trump also challenged Tuesday in an appeal to the state's Superior Court.
8% : He also blasted 'Crooked Joe Biden's comrades' for attempting to remove Trump from the ballot, calling it another attempt by Democrats 'obsessively violating' the Constitution and voters' rights.

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