This statement by Socialist Workers Party National Campaign Director John Studer was issued Dec. 20.
In a 4-3 ruling by Colorado’s all-Democratic-Party-appointed Supreme Court Dec. 19, Donald Trump was barred from appearing on the state’s presidential ballot in 2024. It also barred any write-in votes cast for him from being counted.
This 213-page decision prevents voters there from choosing the candidate of their choice. It is a clear violation of constitutionally guaranteed political rights.
The Democrats have been in a frenzy for months, as incumbent President Joseph Biden’s poll numbers have plummeted while Trump’s have risen. They’ve turned to the courts in a desperate attempt to avoid having to run against Trump, seeking some way to either imprison him or bar him from the ballot. They’ve filed a myriad of criminal and civil cases against him, and dozens of state court cases, like the one in Colorado.
These cases rely on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which was added after the Civil War to bar former Confederate officers from the ballot because they had been involved in a war against the Union.
The Colorado court upheld the suit’s claim that Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, amounted to an insurrection.
The court stayed its decision until Jan. 4 to allow time for Trump to appeal this unprecedented ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Socialist Workers Party intends to run our own candidate for president, to present a program for the working class to fight to take political power into our own hands.
Defending and extending the freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution are at the center of the class struggle today.
Overturn Colorado’s dangerous assault on our rights!