if he’s not on the ballot in CO, they also wouldn’t ratify his election… they may not seem big, but they have the Air Force Academy and NORAD i think…
And the Stargate program
How does that work, legally speaking? Have we ever had a President in the past century that had states that didn’t allow them on the ballot? Outside of having to go all the way back to like Lincoln times.
Current SCotUS is hella corrupt, but I don’t see them denying that the individual States control their own elections.
It would certainly be interesting to see the long-term ramifications if they tried.
Cool, if only the states he has a chance of winning would follow suit.
Note that this applies to the primary also, so it might damage him by encouraging his Republican challengers to stay in the race.
Nah his supporters will write him in for sure.
Those people just won’t turn out at all
Ahh but can they spell it correctly?
Not how write ins work
precedent! a ruling here could be used in a non hostile state!
As much as I’d love to see other states follow, I don’t see how this would be relevant in any other state. It’s a state supreme court ruling on a issue within their own state. Any other state trying to claim precedence would be really strange
One down, 49 to go!
Colorado has 10 electoral votes.
It hurts republican downballot candidates tho. There’s gonna be a number of Trump voters who won’t show up if he’s not on the ballot and they would have been straight ticket republican votes.
Also this sets a big precedent.
and laws
This is a lose-lose. If this is shot down, it’s just another case presidents being above the law. If this goes through, the republican states will use it against democratic candidates.
One interesting take here is that the states have complete autonomy, per the constitution, to do their elections however they want. They are only required to select a candidate and send electors as a state. So that could be a great side-step, to say “the state is deciding state election policy for a state, and this is not a federal matter.”
