The national Republican Party is backing former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain on the 2024 ballot after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled he was ineligible last month.
The Republican National Committee — in conjunction with the National Republican Congressional Committee, the main fundraising arm for House Republicans — filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on Friday, challenging Colorado’s decision to bar Trump from appearing on the 2024 ballot. The brief came just hours before the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the former president is eligible to appear on the Centennial State’s ballot, which could have major implications for other states seeking to block the former president from consideration.
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“This case arises from an historically unprecedented attempt to remove a presidential candidate from the ballot,” attorneys for the committees wrote in the brief. “But the Colorado Supreme Court was the first to take the bait. It should have taken the other path.”
Leaders for the NRCC and RNC decried the Colorado judges’ decision to remove Trump from the ballot, denouncing the move as “election interference.” The two committees previously filed briefs in response to similar efforts in Minnesota and Michigan, where efforts to keep Trump from appearing on the ballot have failed.
The brief comes after a Dec. 19 ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court that stated Trump was disqualified from the 2024 ballot due to the 14th Amendment, which seeks to bar candidates from holding office if they “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the [U.S.], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” A similar ruling was made just one week later by Maine’s secretary of state.
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Trump’s campaign appealed both decisions, prompting the Supreme Court to announce it would take up the Colorado case on Friday. Oral arguments in the case will begin on Feb. 8, with attorneys pushing for a decision by early March.
“The RNC and NRCC are fighting in the Supreme Court to ensure that the American people have the right to choose their president,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement. “Liberal judges and bureaucrats do not outweigh the voice of the voters. The effort to remove Donald Trump from the presidential ballot is an attack on our electoral system and we will not rest until this election interference is stopped.”
