At a speech over the weekend, Donald Trump expressed delight after a court rejected an attempt to keep him off of Colorado’s primary ballot in 2024.
However, acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal from the Obama administration and former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks have hinted that the ruling would be extremely detrimental to the outgoing president.
On Friday, Colorado state District Judge Sarah B. Wallace declared that Trump had committed acts of rebellion during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. However, she dismissed an attempt to remove Trump’s name off the state’s ballot, noting uncertainty about whether the constitutional amendment that bars insurrectionists from public office truly extends to the nation …