The trial examining whether former President Donald Trump is qualified for Colorado’s 2024 ballot has ended — sort of.
Former President Donald Trump speaks during the Pray Vote Stand Summit, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Washington. trotting out dueling experts, congressmen and witnesses to the storming of the U.S. Capitol. At issue: Did the Jan. 6, 2021, attack rise to the level of an insurrection, and was Trump culpable enough that he’s disqualified from the ballot under the 14th Amendment?
While the lawsuit aims to keep Trump off Colorado’s 2024 ballot, and the trial pitted the former president’s lawyers against the plaintiffs, the lawsuit itself seeks to compel Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, from listing the Republican frontrunner. Griswold, even though she is adamant in her opposition and conviction that Trump engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6, has taken a hands-off approach to the case and instead said she’s waiting for the judge’s direction.
One, Colorado Republican Party treasurer Tom Bjorklund, testified in his personal capacity that he was present for the Jan. 6 rally but did not enter the Capitol when it turned into a riot. He pushed the unfounded conspiracy theory that the attackers may have been Trump opponents who sought to disrupt the legal challenge to the 2020 election.
But on Friday, Timothy J. Heaphy, the lead staff investigator for the House committee, challenged that characterization on the stand: “Donald Trump said, ‘You have to fight like hell or you won’t have a country anymore.’ That was something that was stated at the Ellipse . That did instigate violence.”
One expert in constitutional law called by Trump’s legal team, retired professor Robert Delahunty, testified that Congress needed to take further action to make the amendment enforceable.
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