American judge: Only the law can disqualify Trump from participating in the election

according to the report of the International Group Tasnim news, following the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to disqualify Donald Trump from participating in the state’s primary elections, former US federal judge Michael Luttig said that only the law and not Joe Biden It can disqualify Trump from participating in the election.

V During an interview with MSNBC, he said: Only the law can prevent Trump from participating in the primary elections, and no political force can do this.

Lottig clarified that this is a natural and expected action by It is up to all Americans to think about political affairs. But as soon as we think about it seriously, we realize that it is quite clear.

He noted that it is quite clear to the American people that it is the law of the United States that can prevent a former president from being in the White House again if he He should be disqualified. This is not in Joe Biden’s hands. This does not concern the Democrats and the opponents of Donald Trump.

Judge While praising the Colorado court’s ruling on Trump, Luttig expressed that the court used a limited definition of rebellion, and a reasonable definition that the presidency is a job position in the United States.

According to this report, these are the two points that are in the center The attention of the Colorado Court of Appeals has been placed. Trump’s lawyers raised the issue in court that the 14th amendment of the Constitution does not apply to US presidents.

This American official acknowledged that it is not possible for the Supreme Court to interpret the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution differently from the Colorado court.

The Supreme Court of the state of Colorado ruled that former US President Donald Trump cannot participate in the state’s primary voting for the 2024 election due to his role in the attack by his supporters on the Congress building on January 6, 2021.

This historic ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, which is likely to be approved by the US Supreme Court, makes Trump the first presidential candidate to invoke a bill of law A principle in which a person who participated in a rebellion cannot hold government or federal office.

Donald Trump promised to file a protest against this will take the ruling to the Supreme Court, and the Colorado court said it would delay the effect of the decision until at least January 4, 2024, to allow for an appeal.

Speaker The Trump campaign also stated that the Colorado Supreme Court made a completely flawed and flawed decision, and we will appeal it to the US Supreme Court.

According to this ruling – which was approved with 4 votes in favor and 3 votes against Receipt – According to the provisions of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, Donald Trump’s name cannot be on the ballot due to his role in the January 6, 2021 riot, and he has lost the “authority to hold federal responsibilities” by citing this law. /span>.

A lower court had previously ruled that Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the Capitol Building, amounted to a riot, but this court agreed with this. The argument that Article 3 does not include presidents had refused to disqualify him.

Reuters news agency wrote that even if the ruling of the Colorado court is upheld by the Supreme Court, it still has an effect on the outcome. There won’t be a primary election in 2024 because Trump won’t need the votes of Colorado, traditionally a Democratic base, to win the election.

Among the 270 electoral votes that one A candidate must win the election. Colorado has 9 electoral votes. In the 2020 election, Joe Biden won this state with a 13% margin over Trump.

However, the issue is dangerous for Trump because other states that Trump He needs their votes to win. They might use the state of Colorado to oust him. Judges in other states will be closely watching the outcome of the Colorado case against Trump..

Voters and human rights groups have so far tried in more than 12 states to name Trump to remove from the election ballots, but at least 7 of these complaints have not been resolved due to various reasons..

Courts in Michigan, New Hampshire and Florida have dismissed similar lawsuits against Trump on grounds They have rejected regulations and jurisdiction, and in some cases the courts have said that unilateral disqualification of candidates is not within their jurisdiction.

In this regard, Eric Trump, the son of former US President Donald Trump, predicted that the Colorado court’s ruling on his father’s ineligibility to participate in the state’s primary voting would give him a greater lead in Polls will be.

Chris Christie, one of the Republican candidates for the election 2024 said in response to the Colorado court’s decision: “Voters should decide whether Trump should be barred from the White House again, and that is not the court’s job.

Mike Johnson, Speaker of the US House of Representatives and one of Die-hard supporters of Donald Trump said in response to the Colorado court’s decision: “This was a covert partisan and bigoted attack against the former US president.” color:black”>.  

Pramila Jayapal, Democratic representative of Washington State, in a post on Channel X announced its support for the Colorado court’s decision and stated that it’s good, the former president of the United States launched a rebellion against our democracy and must face the consequences.

Republican front-runner Donald Trump is currently facing multiple criminal charges: attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election and his supporters’ attack on the Capitol in January 2021, keeping classified documents at his Florida villa after leaving the White House, paying hush money to an unethical movie actor, and trying to change the results of an election in the state of Georgia. In addition, the former president of the United States is facing a case of paying damages to a writer who accused him of sexual assault. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in these cases and has not been found guilty in any of them so far.

But Donald Trump considers these accusations to be only politically motivated and with the aim of excluding him from the 2024 election, despite the fact that according to the results of the latest polls, Trump is still the leading candidate. Republicans for the 2024 election. He claims that raising these accusations only made him lead in the polls.

The US presidential election will be held in November 2024. Currently, Joe Biden is the leading candidate of the Democrats and Donald Trump is the leading candidate of the Republicans in the polls.

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