Colorado GOP plans to use caucuses, assemblies to pick delegates if lawsuit keeps Trump off ballot
Colorado Republicans want to use an internal party process to award delegates to next year's Republican National Convention if a lawsuit filed this week in state court succeeds in keeping Donald Trump off the ballot in next spring's Colorado presidential primary.
A lawsuit filed on Wednesday by four Republican and two unaffiliated Colorado voters seeks to prevent Trump from ever appearing on a Colorado ballot again, alleging that the former president's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election disqualify him from holding federal office under a provision of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Adopted after the Civil War, the amendment bars anyone who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution from federal office if they "have engaged in insurrection or rebellion." The plaintiffs in the 115-page lawsuit — including a former state Senate Majority leader and a former GOP congresswoman from Rhode Island — argue that Trump violated his oath by "recruiting, inciting and encouraging a violent mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a futile attempt to remain in office."