Colorado justice with roots in El Salvador sided with Trump

[Judi Lynn]

Dec 21, 2023 Updated 1 hr ago
Milan Simonich
Editor

A weighty dose of irony accompanied the Colorado Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision to disqualify Donald Trump from holding public office. Trump, an orator of limited range, often makes immigrants scapegoats for America’s ills.

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” he said at a recent rally in New Hampshire.

Yet an immigrant, Carlos Samour, was one of the three Supreme Court justices who voted against barring the former president from Colorado’s ballot in 2024. “Even if we are convinced that a candidate committed horrible acts in the past — dare I say, engaged in insurrection — there must be procedural due process before we can declare that individual disqualified from holding public office,” Samour wrote in his dissenting opinion.

Samour, 57, disregarded all of Trump’s David Duke impersonations to reach a conclusion the justice believes is grounded in law and reason. Samour’s stand didn’t sway a majority of his colleagues on Colorado’s highest court. They said Trump supported an insurrection that saw rioters storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Of all the fallout from the ruling, Samour’s strong words are what Trump’s campaign crew prefers to emphasize. Republican operatives are highlighting Samour’s dissent while denouncing the Colorado court.

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1. The 14th was used to extradite and block any Civil War rebels from being in Congress.

It did NOT require a trial. He is constitutionally off course.