Carolina Quinones '26
As the presidential election process of 2024 continues, runners are campaigning for themselves and against each other. Donald Trump, though, has also been facing some setbacks. He has been facing repercussions for his involvement in the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol. Most notably, the Colorado voters who filed a petition stating Trump should not be allowed to run for president and used the Fourteenth Amendment as support for this statement.
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment states “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
These Colorado voters demanded that Trump's involvement in the January 6 attack on the capitol, should deny him the ability to run for president at all. Furthermore, they insisted he was not a legitimate candidate and should not be on the Colorado ballot, and the Colorado Supreme Court agreed.
Unfortunately for them though, after a five-day trial, the state District Court ruled that although Trump did engage in an insurrection, the President is not an officer of the United States, meaning this Amendment does not apply to him and therefore cannot affect him. Trump is still in the running for president despite it all.
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