FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, July 1, 2024
CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected]
DENVER: Responding to today’s decision from the U.S. Supreme Court establishing presumptive immunity for all of a President’s “official acts,” but failing to decide whether President Donald Trump’s conduct following the 2020 presidential election was an “official act,” ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest multi-issue progressive advocacy organization, condemned the further delay the Court’s indecision will inevitably result in as well as the stark potential implications of the court’s decision.
“A criminal conspiracy to overturn the result of a free and fair American presidential election is not an ‘official act,'” said ProgressNow Colorado executive director Sara Loflin. “‘Official acts’ are carried out in the national interest, not to seize power and commit crimes for one’s own benefit. By stalling the release of this decision for months, the Trump Supreme Court guaranteed that this question will not be resolved before the November elections. At the very least, the Supreme Court has chosen with their delay and indecision to interfere with the election on Trump’s behalf. At worst, the Supreme Court has opened the door to an imperial presidency with diminished safeguards against crimes far worse than what Trump attempted on January 6th, 2021.”
“In Colorado, so-called ‘law and order’ Republicans like Rep. Gabe Evans must answer whether they believe Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election was an ‘official act’ for which Trump should be immune from prosecution,” said Loflin. “Evans has already attempted to downplay the violence of January 6th by comparing Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ to the civil rights movement. Does Evans support, as Justice Sotomayor warns could be the future in her dissent, immunity for a President to kill their political opponents? These are the questions the nation must now consider because of Trump’s unprecedented crimes, and the Supreme Court Trump created. Gabe Evans, who enjoys Trump ‘complete and total endorsement,’ owes Colorado straight answers.”
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