{"id":11886,"date":"2023-11-18T13:42:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T18:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=11886"},"modified":"2023-11-18T13:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T18:42:57","slug":"trump-engaged-in-insurrection-but-should-remain-on-colorado-ballot-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/trump-engaged-in-insurrection-but-should-remain-on-colorado-ballot-judge-rules\/11886\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump engaged in insurrection, but should remain on Colorado ballot: Judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Colorado judge has ruled that former president Donald Trump was \u201cengaged in an insurrection\u201d on January 6, 2021, however rejected to remove him from the state\u2019s 2024 primary ballot, asserting that the 14th Amendment\u2019s \u201cinsurrection ban\u201d do not apply to presidents.<\/p>\n<p>The major decision by Colorado Judge Sarah Wallace on Friday comes after judges in Michigan and Minnesota gave out same verdict and refused to remove the former president from the state\u2019s primary ballot for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>With 2024 primary season fast approaching, these three high-profiles challenges against Trump, which had the backing of well \u2013 funded advocacy groups, have so far failed to remove him from single ballot.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ruling in Colorado condemned the act of Trump as it labelled him as an insurrectionist who \u201cactively primed the anger of his extremist supporters,\u201d and \u201cacted with the specific intent to incite political violence and direct it at the Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall, in her ruling, the judge agreed with almost everything that the challengers argues, except on the critical question of whether a president can be disqualified by the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Colorado judge has ruled that former president Donald Trump was \u201cengaged in an insurrection\u201d on January 6, 2021, however\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":11891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3442,750],"class_list":["post-11886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-colorado-ballot","tag-trump"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}