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Colorado’s top court finds Donald Trump ineligible for US presidency

Donald Trump, who is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, faces a raft of legal cases [Kamil Krzacynski/AFP]

Colorado’s Supreme Court has ruled former United States President Donald Trump is ineligible to run for the White House because of his role in the 2021 assault on the Capitol by his supporters and should be removed from the state’s primary ballot.

While the ruling only applies to Colorado, it marks the first time in US history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars from public office anyone who “engaged in insurrection”, has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate and comes as courts in other states consider similar legal actions.

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