Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has spoken out against Trump’s disqualification from the Colorado ballot, saying that Texas should consider removing President Joe Biden from the ballot in response.
Patrick appeared on Fox 4 KDFW’s The Ingraham Angle last week and said that lawmakers in Texas “believe in Democracy” but suggested that the state should consider removing the president from the 2024 presidential ballot due to the crisis at the southern border.
“Maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas for allowing 8 million people to cross the border since he’s been president,” said Patrick, according to Fox 4.
These comments come shortly after the Colorado Supreme Court determined that Trump would be banned from the 2024 presidential election ballot, citing the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
The state’s court found that there is “clear and convincing evidence” that Trump incited an insurrection during the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.
There have been 14 states to file lawsuits attempting to keep the former president off the ballots for the upcoming election, but this was the first case to go to trial.
Despite this decision, Trump has already stated that he plans to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump authored a memo on his campaign website that he plans to “take this fight all the way to the UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT.”
“I hope to God that Americans everywhere are waking up to what’s happening to our country,” the memo read.
“A ruling party is attempting to amass total control over America by rigging the election against its leading opponent who happens to be a political outsider committed to defending the needs and interests of hardworking Americans.”
Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, commented to Newsweek on the state’s decision, saying that it has put Trump’s campaign in “major legal jeopardy” while adding “a lot of pressure on the Supreme Court to review the decision.”
“My instinct is that the Supreme Court would reverse, but it’s not a sure thing,” said Muller.
