Dissenting justices on the Colorado Supreme Court have warned the court’s decision to remove Donald Trump from the state primary ballot for “insurrection” risks sowing “chaos” throughout the country, and that the 45th President did not receive a fair trial.
Despite the fact every top justice in the Centennial State was appointed by a Democratic governor, there was only a 4-3 decision to remove Trump, with Chief Justice Brian Boatright, Justice Maria Berkenkotter, and Justice Carlos Samour dissenting.
“The decision to bar former President Donald J. Trump… by all accounts the current leading Republican presidential candidate (and reportedly the current leading overall presidential candidate) from Colorado’s presidential primary ballot flies in the face of the due process doctrine,” warned Justice Samour.
“There was no fair trial either,” Samour continued, expressing particular concern that Trump had never been deemed guilty of insurrection by a jury of his peers. “I have been involved in the justice system for 33 years now, and what took place here doesn’t resemble anything I’ve seen in a courtroom,” he stressed.
“[M]ost other states don’t have the Election Code provisions we do [and this] will inevitably lead to the disqualification of President Trump from the presidential primary ballot in less than all 50 states, thereby risking chaos in our country,” Samour added.
“This can’t possibly be the outcome the framers intended.”
