In a four-3 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court has officially kicked Donald Trump off the presidential primary ballot.

Because an eccentric in a horn hat, and some Midwestern grannies got a police guided tour of the US Capitol on January 6th, the worst day in the history of this already republic.

The court has decided that President Trump led an insurrection against the United States and may therefore be

disqualified from office.

The legal reasoning is, as you might imagine, rather weak.

The court argued that if it didn't take the unprecedented action of exercising,

listen to this, of exercising an anti-Confederate provision of a Civil War era constitutional amendment to

impede a presidential candidate from running for office, then if it didn't do that

it would thereby forfeit any right to prevent anyone from running for president.

You have a 20-something foreign national who shows up in America.

The court, unless it enforces this provision against Trump, would not be able to stop that random

young foreigner from running for president. I am not joking. That is actually in the court's

writing here. The court's reasoning argues that if it does not radically reinterpret this 150 year old

constitutional provision to stop a popular former president from

seeking a second term then all of the actual constitutional requirements for the

presidency. 35 years old natural-born citizen, all of those somehow would go out

the window too. I'm not even sure how to engage with this kind of legal

argument. It is so absurd on its face. But the legal reasoning is not actually as

absurd as the political reasoning.

Brought to you by the self-appointed defenders of democracy who now hold that the only way to defend

democracy is to prohibit people from voting for the popular candidate.

I'm Michael Knowles, the Michael Knowles show. And Welcome back to the show, more allegations of plagiarism against the Harvard President.

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