Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that no person, having previously taken an oath to support the constitution of the United States, shall hold any office enumerated therein if he or she “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.”

All readers know that on Dec. 19, 2023, the Colorado Supreme Court, by a 4-3 vote, held that former President Donald Trump’s name cannot be placed on the state’s Republican Party primary ballot because of his conduct on Jan. 6, 2021.