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Colorado Ballot Fight Keeps Trump in the Legal Crosshairs
The Colorado eligibility case was no longer a niche lawsuit by December 17; it had become one of the most dangerous legal threats to Trump’s 2024 campaign. The underlying claim, rooted in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, was that Trump had engaged in insurrection through his conduct around January 6. The immediate screwup was not a new ruling on this date, but a growing reality Trump could not spin away: his ballot access and his campaign message were now tied to the same central accusation. The case was headed for an even bigger collision with the courts, and the longer it stayed alive, the more it normalized the idea that Trump’s candidacy itself could be challenged as a matter of constitutional law.