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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday, December 20th, 2023. This is the

excerpt. Today a court says former President Donald Trump has been disqualified from the

2024 primary ballot in Colorado. Plus we hear the latest from Republicans

impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden

and we discuss the sexual assault of hostages in Gaza.

Colorado Supreme Court yesterday ruled that former President Donald Trump may not appear on the state's

presidential primary ballot next year. It's the first time a court has embraced the theory that he

disqualified himself from a second term by attempting to overturn the 2020 election.

The Colorado court voted 4 to 3 and said it would stay its own ruling until January, giving

Trump time to appeal to the US Supreme Court.

Trump is almost certain to do so, which would put a historic question

before the nation's highest court.

At issue is the wording of the Constitution's insurrection clause and whether the former president

incited an insurrection when his supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

A Colorado District Judge last month held that Trump engaged in an insurrection by inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol.

But that the provision of the 14th Amendment that disqualifies certain officials involved with insurrection did not apply to a president.

The Colorado Supreme Court has now reversed that.

The Colorado Court is the first rule explicitly against Trump on the issue.

Courts in several other states, including Minnesota,

Michigan, and New Hampshire, have shot down similar legal claims in recent weeks. Republican investigators leading the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden

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