Trump is the favorite to win the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election (Reuters)
On Wednesday, the Republican Party filed an appeal against the decision to exclude former US President Donald Trump from running in the 2024 presidential primaries in Colorado.
A Republican lawyer in the state said they had appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to seek its intervention in the Colorado Supreme Court's Dec. 29 decision.
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump was disqualified from running for the party's primary in the state, due to his alleged role in the attack by his supporters on the Capitol on January 2021, <>, on the basis of a provision in the US Constitution that prohibits anyone who "participated in an insurrection" from holding public office.
The court suspended its decision until the fourth of next January, and said that Trump's name will remain on the ballot if he appeals, which is what Reuters expects Trump, who is the favorite to win the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election, will do.
The Colorado court decision is used for the first time in U.S. history that Section III of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, called the disqualification clause, has been used to rule that a presidential candidate is ineligible to enter the White House.
Source: Reuters