The 14th Amendment of the Constitution says insurrectionists cannot hold quote any

office civil or military under the United States and tonight in a ruling as stunning as it is unprecedented, Colorado Supreme Court

said that Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States, is an insurrectionist and therefore

should be disqualified from being president.

Good evening, I'm Pamela Brown here and for Anderson tonight and we begin with not just the ruling,

which is historic, but what happens when it almost certainly reaches the U.S. Supreme

Court which could be seismic.

Starting us off tonight, CNN Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent Paula Reed,

Paula tell us more about this really surprising ruling.

Surprising, remarkable, Pamela, and the judges here,

they acknowledge that at the top of their opinion.

They talk about the weight and the magnitude of the issue that they're deciding here I mean this is the biggest court decision to impact a national election since Bush v Gore and even though this only impacts Colorado,

the implications could be national.

Because here we're talking about the 14th Amendment

of the United States Constitution.

And there's a section of that amendment that bars

U.S. officials who engage in an insurrection from holding public office. Now in this case

in Colorado was at the lower court level. There was a trial. They found that

Trump did engage in an insurrection, but they said he shouldn't be

disqualified from the ballot because the judge said that that section of the

Constitution didn't specifically mention presidents.

But here, the state Supreme Court reversing that, saying he should be disqualified

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