On Monday, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold expressed “disappointment” at former President Donald Trump’s unanimous victory in the Supreme Court, which ruled that her state cannot bar former President Trump from appearing on the ballot in 2024, saying it was now up to voters to “save our democracy.”
Just a day before Super Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued a 9-0 decision against the case brought by the state of Colorado, which attempted to remove Trump from the ballot, which argued that he was disqualified from public office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
The state alleged that Trump led an “insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, which the former president has not been charged with nor convicted of.
“My larger reaction is disappointment,” Griswold said on MSNBC. “I do believe that states should be able under our constitution to bar oath-breaking insurrectionists.”
“Ultimately, this decision leaves open the door for Congress to act to pass authorizing legislation, but we know that Congress is a nearly non-functioning body,” she added. “So ultimately, it will be up to the American voters to save our democracy in November.”
In December, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled 3-4 that Section 3 of the 14th amendment applies to a president, despite not being indicated in the text, and ruled that Trump should be barred from the state’s general ballot for his conduct on Jan. 6, 2021.
“No person shall… hold any office… under the United States… who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States… 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,” the Constitution states.
“President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president,” the state court wrote in an unsigned opinion. “Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the election code for the secretary to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.”
The justices also issued an administrative stay, pending the results of the Supreme Court’s decision, forcing Griswold to put Trump’s name back on the GOP primary ballot until the case was decided. It was widely expected that the Supreme Court would side with the former president.
Griswold said she would have liked the decision sooner but added she wasn’t surprised by the outcome based on how the oral arguments went, claiming that the Supreme Court has “issued bad decisions on democracy” but adding that she would respect its ruling in spite of her disagreement.
“I think the larger picture is it’s as clear as day what Donald Trump did,” she said. “He incited that violent mob to rush onto the Capitol to try to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power. His attacks and his allies’ attacks on our democracy have not stopped.”
“They are already laying the groundwork to undermine 2024,” she claimed.
MSNBC host Katy Tur asked Griswold if she felt the Supreme Court was “partisan,” despite the fact that the decision was unanimous.
“I think this court has had obviously some pretty big issues,” Griswold said. “Whether it has been Clarence Thomas’ wife’s role, gifts that have gone unreported, and there are some pretty big decisions that have come out of the the court that I highly disagree with, and I think strip Americans of our basic human rights and fundamental freedoms. With that said, we live in a country of rule of law. We have to respect the court’s decisions while disagreeing with them. And honestly, I think that’s something that MAGA Republicans could take a lesson from.”
In February, following the oral arguments at the Supreme Court, Griswold warned that keeping Trump on the ballot would be a “danger” to America’s future.
“If the justices were to accept Trump’s arguments that he is fully above the Constitution, that insurrectionists deserve a place on the ballot and potentially an office, that will be a grave day for this country and a danger to our longevity as the United States,” she said.
Notably, Trump has at no point been charged with, nor convicted of insurrection against the United States.
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