Colorado Republicans appeal against Donald Trump’s 2024 ballot ban

USA: Colorado Republicans have appealed to the US Supreme Court after the state’s top court ruled that Donald Trump was ineligible to run for president.

The appeal means he will remain for now on the ballot for the Colorado primary.

Last week, the ex-president was disqualified from running in the state for his alleged role in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

Mr Trump is the Republican frontrunner and is expected to be the party’s candidate for the 2024 US election.

In its appeal, the Colorado Republican Party’s legal team accused the state Supreme Court of “fundamentally changing the course of American democracy,” according to the BBC’s US partner CBS News.

They added that the decision would “distort” the 2024 presidential election and would “mire courts henceforth in political controversies over nebulous accusations of insurrection”.

Colorado is the only US state to strike Mr Trump from the ballot under a US constitutional clause called the 14th Amendment prohibiting anyone engaging in “insurrection or rebellion” from holding public office.

This was the first time this provision has ever been used since it was introduced after the American Civil War.