Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said Saturday the U.S. Supreme Court must take up the case of Donald Trump’s appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling to boot him off the ballot.
The Colorado Supreme Court made the unprecedented ruling to disqualify President Trump from the state’s ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause.
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After the ruling, other states, like California and Maine, are pursuing options to boot Trump off their ballots.
However, Simon predicted Trump's ballot status won't differ state-by-state.
In other words, Trump will either be on the ballot everywhere or nowhere.
“We’re never going to have a situation in this country where one or some cluster of states decides that Donald Trump is not on the ballot and everyone else decides he is,” Simon said during an interview with MSNBC.
"This is the canary in the coal mine. This is the case that's headed, we know almost certainly, to the U.S. Supreme Court," Simon commented.
Just the News reports:
Simon later added that there was a possibility that the Supreme Court would just return the case to Colorado for more argumentation or a different ruling.
“There’s so many different ways that the Supreme Court could go, there are multiple off ramps for them, for example, to decide the case without deciding the ultimate issue, which is, did Donald Trump engage in or help an insurrection?” he said. “They don’t have to decide that. There are a number of ways they can dispose of the case and get an outcome without deciding that question.”
Other states such as Virginia, West Virginia and Arizona have also attempted to remove Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment, claiming that Trump participated in an insurrection during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The challenge to remove Trump from the ballot in West Virginia under the 14th Amendment was dismissed this week.
U.S. District Judge Irene Berger, an Obama-appointee, ruled that Texas resident John Anthony Castro could not demonstrate standing.
"As I told Jonathan Capehart today, states like Minnesota are watching carefully to see how the U.S. Supreme Court handles challenges to the former President’s placement on the ballot. (Voting for our presidential primary starts soon - on January 19th!)," Simon said.
Watch the interview on MSNBC:
As I told @CapehartJ today, states like Minnesota are watching carefully to see how the U.S. Supreme Court handles challenges to the former President’s placement on the ballot. (Voting for our presidential primary starts soon - on January 19th!) https://t.co/TASCao3keN
— Steve Simon (@MNSteveSimon) December 23, 2023
Not all Democrats are on board with the idea of booting Trump off the ballot.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized the move as a "political distraction."
Democrat Governor Criticizes Effort To Remove Donald Trump From Ballot
The Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling is on hold until January 4th so Donald Trump can appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Trump campaign called the ruling “a completely flawed decision.”
