New York Democrats follow Colorado and renew effort to push Trump off the ballot

Some Democrats in New York are looking to follow Colorado’s lead and remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot for the 2024 Republican presidential primary.

Democratic New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal said he is elated by the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump is ineligible for the presidency under the 14th Amendment, according to the New York Daily News. He also posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, in response to the news, saying “New York is next.”

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Hoylman-Sigal is one of five Democratic lawmakers who wrote to the New York State Board of Elections earlier this month to have Trump removed from the primary and general election ballot in the Empire State, citing the same insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment that the Colorado Supreme Court said disqualifies the former president.

“Commissioners’ oath to support the Constitution and the weighty responsibility entrusted to the Board by the state of New York compel the Board to exclude Trump’s name from the list of qualified candidates in the presidential primary,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter. “Just as you would exclude a candidate who is not a natural born citizen, or who is underage, so too should you exclude from the ballot a candidate who previously swore to support the Constitution but then engaged in insurrection.

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“The January 6 insurrection was a violent uprising against the United States that tragically resulted in loss of multiple lives,” the letter continued. “That dark day in our nation’s history was led, facilitated, and encouraged by Trump. The Board must not allow those who participated to run again for office against the mandate of the Constitution.”

Trump campaign officials have said he will appeal the ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Colorado ruling is the first to rule him ineligible after challenges by liberal groups in Minnesota and Michigan have failed to boot him from the primary ballot so far.