DENVER (AP) — A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race.
Since the Constitution gives management and oversight of elections to the States, does that not mean that the Colorado Supreme Court is the highest court which has jurisdiction on this case?
I thought that as well, and expected that the only way it could be moved to the federal system is if the actions/decision is believed to violate federal law (similar to gerrymandering cases violating the voting rights act).
But I’m not a lawyer or a judge, so I know shit, apparently.
That is why I am hoping that the appeal to the Supreme Court results in them saying “we have to respect the state’s decision” but my realistic brain knows that’s not going to be the case