Wyoming Republican Secretary of State Chuck Gray is encouraging other state secretaries to defend keeping former President Donald Trump’s name on the 2024 presidential ballot after filing an amicus brief with the Supreme Court. 

The conservative legal organization American First Legal filed the amicus brief on Gray’s behalf in direct support of Trump’s name remaining on the ballot after he said the Colorado Supreme Court misinterpreted the Constitution, Fox News reported.  

“We must stop, as secretaries of state, the radical left’s un-American and unconstitutional attempts to weaponize the 14th Amendment against Trump and the American people. And we’re going to keep working as we have to ensure that Trump will go on the ballot,” Gray told Fox News.

While many amicus briefs have been filed to the high court regarding Trump’s ballot eligibility, including former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Gray’s is the only one filed by a secretary of state in direct support of Trump, with others being neutral toward the former president, according to the outlet.  

In the brief, Gray argued against “the left’s weaponization” of the 14th Amendment, which he said can’t be used to defend Trump’s removal from the ballot, and said the president did not engage in an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, because he was not an officer of the United States.  

“The notion that the President is not an ‘Officer of the United States’ is strange to the modern colloquial ear. But the phrase has a specific meaning that plainly excludes the President, reinforced by decades of precedent,” according to the amicus brief. “The Colorado Supreme Court erred in concluding contrary to this long-settled understanding.”

Gray told the outlet he suspected efforts to derail Trump’s success in the 2024 election since last summer, and warned New Hampshire’s secretary of state about the removal of his name from primary ballots. 

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Despite the Supreme Court’s pending decision on Trump’s ballot eligibility, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has already asked the state’s Supreme Judicial Court to decide if Trump’s name can be on Maine’s ballot Friday. 

“We’ve been on it from the start. We saw this coming. Just as an observer from 2015 on, you could see where the radical left was going to try to go with this because it’s in line with what they’ve been doing now for a decade,” Gray said. “[They’re] trying to do all they can in stopping America First policies and stopping President Trump.”