Colorado judges' decision to remove Trump from ballot is 'hot garbage,' says former prosecutor
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Former federal prosecutor Francey Hakes breaks down the 'shocking' decision from the Colorado Supreme Court to cut former President Trump from the state's 2024 ballots.
Madeline Coggins is a Digital Production Assistant on the Fox News flash team with Fox News Digital.
FRANCEY HAKES: It really is a shocking opinion. I read it. It is a couple of hundred pages of hot garbage. There is simply no defense for this anywhere in the Constitution. In fact, what these four unelected judges in Colorado have done for the rest of the 300 and some odd million of us in the country is decided without a trial, without a jury, without any due process, that former President Trump committed a crime, that is insurrection, which is akin to treason, which carries a very heavy, substantial criminal penalty. They've decided, these four, that he committed this crime and should therefore be left off the ballot because of the 14th Amendment that was passed in the wake of the Civil War. It isn't even applicable. It's never been applied before, and it is a shocking decision on their part.
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