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Federal judge orders Englewood woman to explain why Trump removal lawsuit should proceed
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A federal judge on Tuesday directed a self-represented plaintiff from Englewood to explain why she should be allowed to seek President Donald Trump’s removal from office on the grounds that he engaged in insurrection. Marcia M. Radin filed a one-page document on Feb. 5, labeled a “grievance,” in which she alleged Trump and Vice President…
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‘It was my duty’: Colorado chief justice speaks out about Trump disqualification vote
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Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez spoke haltingly and emotionally on Thursday night about her awareness of the risks she was taking when she joined a Colorado Supreme Court decision last December finding Donald Trump constitutionally disqualified from appearing on the state’s ballot. “I want to emphasize: I did not relish that vote at all. I cast…
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3 Colorado justices shrug off Trump decision, scandal fallout to cruise to retention
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Three Colorado Supreme Court justices easily won their retention elections on Tuesday, brushing off a recent controversial decision to disqualify the Republican presidential candidate and disapproval of how the court handled a contracting scandal. Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez, Justice Brian D. Boatright and Justice Maria E. Berkenkotter were poised to secure new 10-year terms,…
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Q&A with Shannon Stevenson | Colorado’s solicitor general talks about arguing to SCOTUS in Trump case
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Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a Colorado case with historic implications — specifically, whether Donald Trump is constitutionally disqualified from seeking office for engaging in insurrection as president. In December, the Colorado Supreme Court found Trump to be disqualified, by 4-3, based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Trump appealed to the nation’s…
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At SCOTUS, Colorado’s Justice Carlos Samour looms in Trump ballot disqualification arguments
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During Thursday’s oral arguments before the nation’s highest court about Donald Trump’s constitutional eligibility to remain on the ballot, the justices explicitly and indirectly channeled the member of Colorado’s Supreme Court who wrote the most impassioned critique of the legal effort to disqualify Trump. Justice Carlos A. Samour Jr., in his dissenting opinion in December,…
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Colorado Republicans call case against Trump ‘unreal,’ Democrats say SCOTUS should bar ‘insurrectionist’
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Republicans and Democrats in Colorado expectedly hewed along partisan lines following Thursday’s oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, which is weighing whether former president Donald Trump should be disqualified from the state ballot for allegedly engaging in an “insurrection” that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. “It would be a…
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In their own words: Colorado justices argue for or against disqualifying Donald Trump
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Four of Colorado’s justices concluded on Tuesday that Donald Trump is ineligible for the presidency because he engaged in “insurrection” and that a rarely-invoked constitutional provision applies, indeed, to the president. Three justices dissented, alleging that the trial failed to afford the former president due process. Notably, their action to disqualify Trump from the state’s…
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Dissenting justices in Trump case raise due process concerns, offer slim details
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When the Colorado Supreme Court decided, 4-3, on Tuesday that Donald Trump is constitutionally disqualified from the 2024 primary ballot because he engaged in insurrection, two of the dissenting justices voiced concerns about the former president’s right to due process. “From my perspective, just because a hearing was held and (Trump) participated, it doesn’t mean…
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Colorado’s justices disqualified Trump from the ballot. Now what? | ANALYSIS
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Roughly a decade ago, the 10th Circuit Court entertained a case about a New York resident who wished to become America’s next president. The man wanted his name on Colorado’s presidential ballot for the 2012 election. But there was one problem. He was a naturalized citizen. So, the Colorado Secretary of State told him he…
