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Court finds Trump ineligible for 2024 presidential election

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled this Tuesday that Donald Trump is ineligible for the 2024 presidential election, due to his actions during the 2020 elections, and ordered the withdrawal of his name from the Republican primaries in that state.

The Supreme Court upheld the first instance decision from November, concluding that Trump was involved in a rebellion on January 6, 2021, during the attack on the United States Capitol and considered that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, invoked to claim his ineligibility, actually applies to a president.

The decision of this instance was also suspended until January 4, in case of an appeal to the US Supreme Court before that date, reported the agency France-Presse (AFP).

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