Donald Trump is barred from Colorado's 2024 ballot, the state Supreme Court rules

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what Michael Luttig and Neal Katyal said to Nicolle Wallace about the 14th Sec 3 hitting SCOTUS. Luttig said that whatever SCOTUS ruled for CO, which he said was the perfect test case, would hold for all 50 states, no exceptions. When Katyal said he'd orally argue the case in a heartbeat, he'd love to have Luttig by his side.

The CO SC ruling pretty much explains itself:

We affirm in part and reverse in part. We hold as
follows:
The Election Code allows the Electors to challenge President Trump's
status as a qualified candidate based on Section Three.
Indeed, the
Election Code provides the Electors their only viable means of litigating
whether President Trump is disqualified from holding office under
Section Three.
Congress does not need to pass implementing legislation for Section
Three's disqualification provision to attach, and Section Three is, in that
sense, self-executing.
Judicial review of President Trump's eligibility for office under Section
Three is not precluded by the political question doctrine.

Section Three encompasses the office of the Presidency and someone
who has taken an oath as President. On this point, the district court
committed reversible error.
The district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting portions of
Congress's January 6 Report into evidence at trial.
The district court did not err in concluding that the events at the U.S.
Capitol on January 6, 2021, constituted an "insurrection.
The district court did not err in concluding that President Trump
"engaged in" that insurrection through his personal actions.
President Trump's speech inciting the crowd that breached the U.S.
Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not protected by the First Amendment.
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The sum of these parts is this: President Trump is disqualified from holding
the office of President under Section Three; because he is disqualified, it would be
a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Secretary to list him as a candidate
on the presidential primary ballot.

Here is its background on the FACTS, which made the ruling a "factual finding," according to Glenn Kirschner, which means that any Appellate agrees with state level factual findings, and so two courts will be in agreement on this ruling when it gets to SCOTUS:

I. Background
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On November 8, 2016, President Trump was elected as the forty-fifth
President of the United States. He served in that role for four years.
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On November 7, 2020, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., was elected as the forty-sixth
President of the United States. President Trump refused to accept the results, but
President Biden now occupies the office of the President.
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On December 14, 2020, the Electoral College officially confirmed the results:
306 electoral votes for President Biden; 232 for President Trump. President Trump
continued to challenge the outcome, both in the courts and in the media.
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On January 6, 2021, pursuant to the Twelfth Amendment, U.S. Const.
amend. XII, and the Electoral Count Act, 3 U.S.C. $ 15, Congress convened a joint
session to certify the Electoral College votes. President Trump held a rally that
morning at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. at which he, along with several others,

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spoke to the attendees. In his speech, which began around noon, President Trump
persisted in rejecting the election results, telling his supporters that "[we won in
a landslide" and "we will never concede." He urged his supporters to
"confront
this egregious assault on our democracy";
"walk down to the Capitol ... [and]
show strength"; and that if they did not "fight like hell, [they would] not … have
a country anymore."
Before his speech ended, portions of the crowd began
moving toward the Capitol. Below, we discuss additional facts regarding the
events of January 6, as relevant to the legal issues before us.
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Just before 4 a.m. the next morning, January 7, 2021, Vice President Michael
R. Pence certified the electoral votes, officially confirming President Biden as
President-elect of the United States.
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President Trump now seeks the Colorado Republican Party's 2024 presidential nomination.

New Mexico made a similar ruling re Couy Griffith, and now comes Colorado with the statement of the actual facts. Trump took an oath, then in sending the crowd to stop Pence and the electoral count, fomented a rebellion/insurrection.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/19/us/politics/colorado-supreme-court-decision.html