The suit charges that his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election disqualify him from Colorado’s presidential ballot under the 14th Amendment.
Gage Skidmore atToday, October 30, a Denver courtroom will hear opening arguments in a legal challenge to former president Donald Trump’s constitutional eligibility to seek that office again, in a landmark case widely expected to ultimately reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
Similar lawsuits have been filed, and in some cases dismissed, in states including Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. But the Colorado case — the first to be filed by CREW, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., and the first to go to trial — represents the most substantial test for such efforts to date.
In August, Trump was indicted in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by federal prosecutors, who wrote that his “pervasive and destabilizing lies” had “targeted a bedrock function of the United States federal government.” The indictment followed criminal referrals by a special congressional panel that investigated the events leading up to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
That case eventually produced a ruling by the Denver-based Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, in which future Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch affirmed that “a state’s legitimate interest in protecting the integrity and practical functioning of the political process permits it to exclude from the ballot candidates who are constitutionally prohibited from assuming office.”
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