Colorado House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese and a fellow Republican legislator on Wednesday called on the chamber’s Democratic speaker to bring to the floor a resolution to impeach Secretary of State Jena Griswold, arguing that Griswold’s “partisan political ideology” has prevented the Democrat from carrying out her duties.

In a letter delivered late Wednesday to House Speaker Julie McCluskie by Pugliese and state Rep. Ryan Armagost, nearly every member of the House Republican caucus insisted that Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision keeping Donald Trump on Colorado’s presidential primary ballot underlines the urgency of their impeachment resolution, which the lawmakers say was submitted to the speaker’s office nearly a month ago.

Griswold, an attorney, expressed support in recent months for a December ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that removed Trump from the state ballot in response to a lawsuit filed by Republican and unaffiliated voters, who alleged the former president was ineligible under a constitutional provision that bars certain federal officials from holding office if they have “engaged in insurrection.”

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned the state court’s ruling in a decision released the day before ballots were due in Colorado’s presidential primary, which Griswold oversaw. When the votes were counted, Trump carried the GOP primary over challenger Nikki Haley by a wide margin.

Reacting to the ruling, Griswold said she is disappointed, adding, “Colorado should be able to bar oath-breaking insurrections from our ballot.”

“The Secretary of State’s request for the removal of a Presidential Candidate from a primary ballot, on the basis of accusations and personal feelings, demonstrates a lack of professionalism and integrity,” the House Republicans wrote in their letter to McCluskie.

Pugliese told Colorado Politics after a brief meeting with the speaker that McCluskie indicated she hadn’t decided whether to allow the resolution to be introduced.

It isn’t the first time this week that high-ranking Colorado Republicans have taken aim at Griswold, the state’s top election official, who told Colorado Politics on Monday that she “won’t be intimidated by extremists and will always protect the right to vote.”

“While I disagree with today’s Supreme Court decision, I will carry out my duty and implement their decision,” Griswold said.

Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert on Monday urged Griswold to “start packing your bags” in a social media post attached to a letter from the Republican congresswoman and the state GOP’s officers.

The letter, signed by Boebert, Colorado Republican Chairman Dave Williams and the state party’s vice chair and secretary, characterized Griswold’s recent activities as “a stain on our Republic and an outright embarrassment to Coloradans and Americans” and threatened “repercussions,” including potentially initiating a recall election.

In response, a defiant Griswold posted a jab at Boebert’s decision to seek another term in Congress from a different district on the other side of the state.

“Hey Lauren, I had to laugh at the ‘pack your bags’ comment given your recent move,” Griswold tweeted. “Bring on the recall. Unlike you, I’ve always defended our Constitution and democracy.”

Neither the Republicans’ attempt to impeach Griswold nor a move to recall her from office is likely to go anywhere beyond the headlines.

According to close Capitol observers, a statewide elected official has never been removed from office in Colorado either in a recall election or by impeachment. In 1935, however, Secretary of State  James H. Carr resigned in the face of bribery allegations after the House voted to impeach him but before the Senate held a trial on whether to remove him.

Griswold’s critics attempted to launch a recall against her in 2021 but failed to turn in any signatures.

Backers of a recall would have just 60 days to gather more than 621,000 petition signatures — 25% of the total votes cast in the last election for the office being recalled — at a cost estimated upwards of $15 million.

The resolution, likewise, is unlikely to gain any traction in the Democratic-controlled House, where Republicans occupy a historically small minority.

“This resolution is an unwarranted waste of time,” McCluskie said through a spokesman. “I’m disappointed to see House Republicans bow to the most extreme fringes of their party simply because the Secretary of State did her job. The only views of hers they object to were also shared by the Colorado Supreme Court, that Donald Trump engage in insurrection against the United States.”

“Donald Trump is the problem, not the secretary,” she added. “But instead of dealing with MAGA extremists in their ranks, they’re defending Trump and attacking his opponents.”

Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Shad Murib dismissed the move to impeach Griswold as “more MAGA nonsense.”

“This lawsuit was brought forward — even by some Republicans — in Colorado, and we’re glad the Supreme Court gave the nation clarity on this important issue,” Murib told Colorado Politics, referring to the attempt to bar Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment.

“We’re going to keep doing what we’ve always been doing, which is organizing to beat Donald Trump, just like we’ve done in 2016 and 2020,” Murib said. “This political effort to remove an elected official for running great elections and making sure the courts have room to decide on these important matters is just more MAGA nonsense. These aren’t serious people.”