{"id":40295,"date":"2023-12-19T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=40295"},"modified":"2023-12-19T19:06:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:06:31","slug":"colorado-supreme-court-bans-trump-from-states-ballot-under-insurrection-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/12\/19\/colorado-supreme-court-bans-trump-from-states-ballot-under-insurrection-clause\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Supreme Court bans Trump from state\u2019s ballot under insurrection clause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a&nbsp;stunning decision,&nbsp;the&nbsp;Colorado Supreme Court&nbsp;removed former President Donald Trump from the state\u2019s 2024 ballot, ruling that he isn\u2019t an eligible presidential candidate because of the 14th Amendment\u2019s \u201cinsurrectionist ban.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/president-donald-trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/president-donald-trump.jpg 639w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/president-donald-trump-300x200.jpg 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court, in its ruling, found there was \u201csubstantial evidence\u201d that Trump laid the groundwork to claim the 2020 election was rigged in President Joe Biden\u2019s favor even before the election and worked to pressure Republican officials in various states to overturn the results.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court also found that Trump\u2019s messages in the lead-up to the January 6 rally at the Ellipse in Washington, DC, \u201cwere a call to his supporters to fight and that his supporters responded to that call.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former president, the court found, also put a \u201csignificant target on Vice President (Mike) Pence\u2019s back\u201d when he tweeted on January 6 that Pence needed to send electoral votes back to the states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump campaign said it would \u201cswiftly file an appeal\u201d following the Colorado Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a&nbsp;stunning decision,&nbsp;the&nbsp;Colorado Supreme Court&nbsp;removed former President Donald Trump from the state\u2019s 2024 ballot, ruling that he isn\u2019t an eligible presidential candidate because of the 14th Amendment\u2019s \u201cinsurrectionist ban.\u201d The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[7086],"class_list":["post-40295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-colorado-supreme-court-bans-trump-from-states-ballot-under-insurrection-clause"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}