A Tuesday decision from the Colorado Supreme Court’s has prompted national speculation on whether former President Donald Trump will appear on presidential primary ballots across the county, as the Centennial State disqualified him as a valid candidate under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause.
While this decision is expected to finalized, or discarded, by the U.S. Supreme Court — Nebraska’s Secretary of State Bob Evnen is expressing he does not find the majority opinion in Anderson v. Griswold to be “persuasive.”
Under Nebraska law, the Nebraska Secretary of State decides the names that are to appear on the primary election ballot for President for each political party. Secretary Evnen wants to ensure that Nebraska voters understand, “The Colorado Supreme Court may control what happens on the Colorado ballot, but it has no legal control over what happens on the Nebraska ballot,” he said in an official statement.
Further, “In accordance with the usual practice of this office, the decision of whose names will appear on the Nebraska Presidential primary election ballot will be made and announced in the latter half of February 2024. The majority opinion in Anderson v. Griswold to keep Donald Trump’s name off of the Republican Presidential primary ballot is not persuasive in my view.”
KLIN News followed up with Secretary Evnen, and asked him to elaborate on his opinion.
“Donald Trump has not been convicted of anything. He was impeached, but was not convicted. He hasn’t been convicted of any crime related to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. I think that it’s fundamentally antidemocratic to take a position like this from a court. I am hopeful that the US Supreme Court will take this case right away and will resolve it one way or the other. We need a resolution of this across the country,” said Evnen.
We asked, if Donald Trump’s conviction status were to change, would his opinion follow suit?
“I can’t say what the decision will be in the middle of February in 2024, and I wouldn’t want to speculate about what would happen,” Evnen told us, “The one thing that I do think that ought to happen between now and then is that the US Supreme Court takes this case and gives Colorado, and the rest of the country, guidance on this issue.”