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A day after the Colorado Supreme Courtroom disqualified former President Donald Trump from showing on the state’s ballots in 2024, California Lieutenant Gov. Eleni Kounalakis is asking the Golden State’s Secretary of State to “discover each authorized possibility” to do the identical.
Kounalakis despatched a letter to Secretary of State Shirley Weber, dated Wednesday, Dec. 20, and referencing Colorado’s current ruling which said Trump was ineligible to seem on the state’s poll as a presidential candidate due to his position in “inciting an riot” on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“This resolution is about honoring the rule of legislation in our nation and defending the elemental pillars of our democracy,” Kounalakis, who launched a marketing campaign to run for California governor in 2026, wrote. “Particularly, the Colorado Supreme Courtroom held in Anderson v. Griswold (2023 CO 63) that Trump’s riot disqualifies him underneath part three of the Fourteenth Modification to face for presidential re-election. As a result of the candidate is ineligible, the court docket dominated, it could be a ‘wrongful act’ for the Colorado Secretary of State to listing him as a candidate on that state’s presidential main poll.”
The gubernatorial candidate informed the Secretary of State that California “should stand on the proper aspect of historical past,” and is “obligated to find out” if the previous president is ineligible to be on the poll for a similar causes he was deemed ineligible in Colorado.
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Former President Trump sporting a MAGA hat. (Sean Rayford/Getty Pictures)
Kounalakis stated Colorado’s resolution may very well be the premise for California’s resolution.
“The structure is evident: you have to be 35 years previous and never be an insurrectionist,” Kounalakis wrote, although in an earlier model of the letter that hit social media, the Lt. Gov. wrote, “you have to be 40 years previous…”
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Lieutenant Governor of California Eleni Kounalakis desires to discover the potential for eradicating Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballots. (Getty)
She additionally stated this isn’t a matter of political gamesmanship, however as a substitute is a “dire matter that places at stake the sanctity of our structure and our democracy.”
Colorado’s disqualification was made underneath the 14th Modification of the U.S. Structure and tied to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
The 4-3 ruling is stayed till Jan. 4 due to seemingly appeals. Three justices on the Colorado Supreme Courtroom dissented.
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Former President Donald Trump was faraway from Colorado’s 2024 ballots by the state’s supreme court docket. The ruling will seemingly face appeals. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)
“We don’t attain these conclusions frivolously,” the court docket’s majority wrote. “We’re conscious of the magnitude and weight of the questions now earlier than us. We’re likewise conscious of our solemn responsibility to use the legislation, with out worry or favor, and with out being swayed by public response to the selections that the legislation mandates we attain.”
In a earlier ruling, Colorado District Choose Sarah B. Wallace allowed Trump to remain on the poll however discovered that Trump “engaged in riot” for his position within the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold stated in a press release that she would “proceed to observe court docket steering on this necessary situation.”
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Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold holds a information convention about 2022 legislative plans in Denver, Colorado, on Tuesday, February 8, 2022. (Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Publish)
“The Colorado Supreme Courtroom has dominated that Donald Trump is barred from the Colorado poll for inciting the January 6 riot and trying to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election. This resolution could also be appealed,” Griswold wrote.
The 14th Modification states: “No particular person shall be a Senator or Consultant in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or maintain any workplace, civil or navy, underneath america, or underneath any state, who, having beforehand taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of america, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an government or judicial officer of any State, to help the Structure of america, shall have engaged in riot or rise up in opposition to the identical, or given assist or consolation to the enemies thereof However Congress might by a vote of two-thirds of every Home, take away such incapacity.”
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Disqualification lawsuits referring to Trump’s look on the poll are pending in 13 states, together with Texas, Nevada and Wisconsin.
Invoice Mears and Adam Sabes of Fox Information Digital contributed to this report.
Greg Wehner is a breaking information reporter for Fox Information Digital.
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California Lt. Gov. requires state to ‘discover each authorized possibility’ to take away Trump from ‘24 poll
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