Colorado Republicans APPEAL decision to disqualify Trump from 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.
45% : 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 Wednesday that would overturn Colorado's controversial decision.
45% : Trump says he also still plans to appeal the ruling to the nation's highest court.
41% : To date, no other court has sided with those who have filed dozens of lawsuits to disqualify Trump under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, nor has any election official been willing to remove him from the ballot unilaterally without a court order.
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% : 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.
30% : Trump has been scathing all over his Truth Social account and at his rallies about the cases, calling them 'election interference.'
29% : Although Colorado's 10 Electoral College votes are unlikely to go to the Republican candidate anyway, the ruling could set precedent for a slew of other states looking to remove Trump from the ballot.
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.
25% : Louisiana became the latest state to see a lawsuit filed attempting to keep Trump off the ballot related to the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
24% : 'The Colorado people have embarrassed our nation with what they did,' Trump said on Sean Hannity's radio show.
17% : Republicans are asking the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court that removes Donald Trump from the state's presidential ballot.

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