For everyone suffering from TDS that is celebrating the Colorado Supreme Court ruling you need to regain a modicum of logic and STOP THE NONSENSE.
First, Section 5 of the Amendment gives only Congress the power to enforce the Amendment. Not the states or a state. “The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
Second, it is obvious that the 14th Amendment does not apply to the President. This is obvious because if it did, it would be an alternative method to remove a President. If you ignore Section 5 then it would only take some court somewhere to decide a sitting President within Section 3 making them ineligible. Alternatively, if constrained by Section 5, a one party House and Senate with the help of a President of the same party could pass a law allowing only majority of Congress to to find future President within Section 3 . There’s nothing in the text nor history of the drafting of the 14th amendment that Supports the view that it could be used to remove a president.
Third, nobody, not any January 6 rioter, nor Donald Trump, has been convicted of, or charged with, insurrection or rebellion.
Stop the nonsense.
It is ludicrous to think you can allow a partisan state Supreme Court to determine that there has been an insurrection when there has been no charge or conviction of an insurrection and that such a determination can prevent someone from holding office. It would open the door to a range of claims such as: Kamala Harris provided aid and comfort to insurrection and rebellion when she bailed out violent rioters; or a state court arbitrarily and unilaterally claiming that not enforcing the law allowing millions of illegal immigrants is a rebellion, and invalidate Biden’s ability to be on a ballot.
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