Trump’s name is back on the ballot in Colorado

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, an official of the state of Colorado announced on Friday morning (Tehran time) that the name of Donald Trump, despite receiving the ruling of disqualification from the Supreme Court of this state last week, was on the ballots. It will be used for the preliminary stage of the presidential election.

The Secretary of the Interior of the state of Colorado said that due to the fact that the Republicans in this state have referred the ruling of the Supreme Court of Colorado to the Supreme Court, Trump’s name will be included in the primaries next week (January 5, 2024). was placed on the ballots.

According to this state official, only if the Supreme Court of the United States does not accept Trump’s appeal or upholds the ruling of the Colorado court, his name will be on the ballots. The vote will be deleted.

On Wednesday, Republicans in the state of Colorado filed a complaint with the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the ruling of the Colorado court and demanded a review of Trump’s disqualification.

The Colorado State Supreme Court announced 10 days ago that Donald Trump cannot be a candidate for the US presidential election in this state based on Article 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.

This clause of the law, which was passed during the American Civil War, states that those who take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States in case of “incitement to sedition or insurrection” from They will be barred from re-election to federal positions.

This clause has already been used to disqualify thousands of candidates from the United States of America (a union of eleven southern states between 1861 and 1865).

However, since 1919, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution has been used only twice, while experts say that the ambiguous tone of this legal clause of former presidents does not include

Gina Griswold, Secretary of the Interior of Colorado, said in a statement on Friday: “Donald Trump played a role in creating the riot and was constitutionally removed from the ballot in Colorado.” The action of the Supreme Court of Colorado was correct. The decision has now been sent to the Court of Appeal. I urge the Supreme Court of the United States to act quickly in light of the upcoming primaries.” to announce

Trump is the leading candidate of the Republican Party in the election polls. Meanwhile, he is facing 91 criminal charges in the course of four criminal cases, which, according to him, could bring him up to 560 years in prison.

Donald Trump judicial cases and He has described such complaints against him as a political attempt by the rival party to remove him from the political scene.

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