Hours after Trump asked the Supreme Court to overturn a state court’s ruling that he is ineligible to appear on Colorado’s Republican primary ballot, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold urged the high court to step in as the deadline to certify candidates looms.
In an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, Griswold explained that Trump’s name will be on the ballot after he filed an appeal of the state court’s ruling.
“The Colorado Supreme Court determined that Trump did engage an insurrection, and because of that, he is disqualified from the ballot,” she said. “But, their decision stated that if an appeal was filed before today, he would be on the ballot until the Supreme Court took some type of action.”
Griswold said she has to certify the candidates who qualify for the ballot before the country clerks begin printing ballots next week for the state’s primary election March 5.
“Colorado, of course, we have some of the best elections in the country, and that includes early voting, in person, but also mail balloting. And then, ballots for overseas and military voters will go out actually this month,” she said.
“So it’s a quickly approaching timeline,” she added. “I do hope that the Supreme Court acts with urgency, because, Lawrence, frankly, the American people deserve to know whether a president can engage an insurrection and then be qualified once again to hold that office.”
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