Insurrection is a criminal statute. In order to remove Trump from the ballot for insurrection, he had to be previously convicted in the Federal criminal court under 18 USC 2383 for insurrection. Trump was never convicted of insurrection, nor even been ever charged with insurrection. For that reason alone this decision is a hyper-partisan decision which should be reversed by the Supreme Court.
Let me give you an example. Let’s say the US Constitution were to say that a person who committed murder cannot be president. The Supreme court of Colorado or any other state cannot rule that they think this candidate committed murder and for this reason they will take him of the ballot. He would have to be convicted of murder in criminal court. The same is true of insurrection.
Further, Colorado Supreme Court used findings of the J6 committee. Again, J6 committee is not a court of law, it was a partisan committee of Democrats and two Trump haters who lost their congressional seats right after the committee hearings. Even if you were to look at the J6 committee, it led to the trial in the Senate, where Trump won.
Further, this statute and related statutes relate to officers of the United States. In 2010, Chief Justice Roberts explained in Free Enterprise that people don’t vote for officers of the United States. “Article Two: Officers of the United States is commonly understood in the Constitution to refer to appointed officials. And to the extent that the president or the vice president are included as an officer or included within the admonitions of the Constitution, they are typically highlighted, like in the impeachment clause, which specifically says president, vice president.” So, removal from the ballot under 14th Amendment article 3 for insurrection does not relate to the US President.
Moreover, it is ridiculous to even talk about rebellion when Trump clearly stated to the crowd on January 6 to go and PEACEFULLY demonstrate in front of the US capitol. Trump never told the crowd to break a window in the Capitol or disturb peace.
On the other hand, the actions of Biden, Harris and Mayorkas in cancelling the “stay in Mexico” Trump era policy and aiding and abetting an invasion of over 8 million illegals is nothing short of insurrection and treason against the United States.
Additionally, Obama similarly aided and abetting a massive invasion of illegals and got into the White House using a stolen CT Social Security number xxx-xx-4425, which was traced to Harrison J. Bounel, a resident of CT, who died without heirs. Similarly, Obama used other bogus IDs which were linked to this Social Security number. (see attached link
Evidence redacted of forgery, fabrication, fraud and identity theft in Obama’s IDs) This is an insurrection against the US, whereby a person got into the position of the US president using bogus IDs.