Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has pledged to withdraw from the Colorado state main in response to the latest ruling that bars former President Trump from being on the poll.
As Breitbart Information reported on Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Courtroom dominated “in a 4-3 opinion that the Structure’s ‘Rebel Clause’ prohibits former President Donald Trump from showing on the poll for the presidency in 2024.”
“The courtroom discovered by clear and convincing proof that President Trump engaged in revolt as these phrases are utilized in Part Three” of the Fourteenth Modification, the ruling learn.
The ruling will partially reverse a earlier ruling from Colorado District Courtroom Choose Sarah Wallace, who dominated in November that the Fourteenth Modification wouldn’t apply within the case of former President Trump being that he’s not an officer of the US as was outlined on the time of the modification’s ratification following the Civil Conflict.
In his assertion launched on X, Ramaswamy known as the ruling a real “assault on democracy,” characterizing it as “a cabal of Democrat judges” looking for to bar the previous president from the 2024 election.
That is what an *precise* assault on democracy seems to be like: in an un-American, unconstitutional, and *unprecedented* choice, a cabal of Democrat judges are barring Trump from the poll in Colorado. Having tried each trick within the ebook to remove President Trump from working in…
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 19, 2023
“I pledge to *withdraw* from the Colorado GOP main until Trump can also be allowed to be on the state’s poll, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley to do the identical instantly – or else they’re tacitly endorsing this unlawful maneuver, which may have disastrous penalties for our nation,” he mentioned.
“Right now’s choice is the most recent election interference tactic to silence political opponents and swing the election for no matter puppet the Democrats put up this time by depriving People of the appropriate to vote for his or her candidate of alternative,” he added.
Ramaswamy then outlined a number of the historical past behind the 14th Modification, noting that it was handed “to ban former Accomplice navy and political leaders from holding excessive federal or state workplace.”
“These males had clearly taken half in a revolt towards the US: the Civil Conflict. That makes it all of the extra absurd {that a} left-wing group in Colorado is asking a federal courtroom to disqualify the forty fifth President on the identical grounds, equating his speech to revolt towards the US,” he famous.
“The Framers of the 14th Modification can be appalled to see this slender provision—meant to bar former U.S. officers who switched to the Confederacy from looking for public workplace—being weaponized by a sitting President and his political allies to forestall a former President from looking for reelection. Our nation is changing into unrecognizable to our Founding Fathers,” he concluded.
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