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In an unprecedented and historic judgement, the former president and Republican front-runner is struck from the ballot in the Centennial State over his role in the January 6 Capitol riot
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Donald Trump has been removed from Colorado’s 2024 presidential election ballot in an unprecedented and historic ruling by the state’s Supreme Court.
In a 4-3 decision on Tuesday, the panel ruled Mr Trump could be kept off the state’s GOP ballot under the 14th Amendment, which bars those who took a constitutional oath and then “engaged in insurrection” from holding public office, over his role in the January 6 Capitol riot.
“We do not reach these conclusions lightly,” the majority opinion reads. “We are likewise mindful of our solemn duty to apply the law, without fear or favor, and without being swayed by public reaction.”
The decision, which is stayed until early January, only applies to Colorado’s ballot and Mr Trump has already vowed to appeal.
While it appears likely the conservative-heavy US Supreme Court may overturn the ruling, it paves the way for other states to potentially follow suit, while some Republicans are already vying retaliatory action against President Joe Biden.
The landmark ruling comes after reports emerged that federal prosecutors in Washington, DC, were considering charges over Mr Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election months before Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith took charge of the investigation.
Was Alabama Republican senator Tommy Tuberville as appalled as everyone else by Trump’s hateful attack on immigrants?
Far from it.
“I’m mad he wasn’t tougher than that because you’re seeing what’s happening on the border? We’re being overrun,” he told our own Eric Garcia this week.
Good grief.
‘I’m mad he wasn’t tougher than that,’ Sen Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) tells The Independent
US President Joe Biden’s approval rating hit an all-time low on Monday, with just 34 per cent of respondents to a new poll saying they approve of the job he is doing in the White House.
By contrast, 61 per cent said they were dissatisfied with his performance when consulted for the latest survey from Monmouth University, conducted between 30 November and 4 December.
The remaining five per cent of people surveyed said they had not yet made up their minds about the president’s first term.
The Biden administration’s approach to tackling illegal immigration (69 per cent disapproval) and taming inflation (68 per cent disapproval) were identified as areas of particular concern, according to Monmouth.
Meanwhile, 53 per cent were disappointed with the president’s record on job creation and 52 per cent by his administration’s work on bolstering transport and energy infrastructure.
President suffers 10 per cent slide in popularity from July high, with his record tackling illegal immigration and taming inflation widely regarded as particular areas of concern
He’s awake folks. And he’s angry.
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The late night host has joined in the chorus of condemnation of Trump’s comments, calling him rhetoric “scary”.
Martha McHardy has this on what he had to say.
At a campaign event in New Hampshire over the weekend, Mr Trump was accused of amplifying fascist language
Here’s the US vice president’s response to Trump’s appalling remarks about immigrants at Saturday night’s rally in New Hampshire.
Kamala Harris has condemned Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric after the former president said that immigrants entering the U.S. are “poisoning the blood of our country.” Mr Trump’s comments came at a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday (16 December). The vice president said the rhetoric was “language that I think people have rightly found similar to the language of Hitler.” “The true measure of the strength of a leader is based not on who they beat down, but who they lift up,” Ms Harris added. It comes as the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Mr Trump cannot appear on the state’s 2024 presidential election ballot.
If you’ve missed Trump’s latest Hitler-related controversies, the folks at IndyTV has you covered.
Last night in Waterloo, Iowa, he was forced to deny ever having read the Nazi leader’s notorious memoir-manifesto Mein Kampf.
Donald Trump doubled down on his anti-immigrant rhetoric after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled he cannot appear on the state’s 2024 presidential election ballot. “They’re destroying the blood of our country… and I never read Mein Kampf… They could bring in disease,” the former president said in Iowa on Tuesday (19 December). It comes after he told a New Hampshire rally on Saturday that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the US. The Colorado appellate panel found that Mr Trump could be kept off the state’s GOP ballot under the 14th Amendment, which bars those who took a constitutional oath then “engaged in insurrection” from holding office.
If you’re wondering how exactly Donald Trump’s various criminal indictments and civil trials are currently placed, Josh Marcus has this all-too-timely recap.
Former commander-in-chief faces cases in Washington, Florida, New York and Georgia that could land him in prison. Josh Marcus explains each one
Here’s Rachel Sharp with the very latest on what the state’s supreme court’s majority ruling means for next year’s presidential eleciton.
Following the historic ruling, here’s what could happen next in terms of an appeal, the 2024 race and retaliatory action by the Republican party
Here’s the response to yesterday’s news from Trump spokesman Steven Cheung, striking a typically defiant note.
Trump himself had a busy evening on Truth Social reposting partisan support culled from Maga Republicans and conservative cable news media and crying “ELECTION INTERFERENCE” as loudly as possible.
Also cheerily echoing that howl was Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel:
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Republican candidate for President Former US President Donald Trump, addresses a crowd of supporters during a rally at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, USA, 16 December 2023
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