Lamborn back on the ballot.
Who cares?
Plaintiffs say that they’re appealing to the U.S. Court of Appeals, so Lamborn isn’t guaranteed a spot on the primary ballot yet.
By the way, the legal issue isn’t whether someone domiciled in California but living temporarily in his mom’s house in Colorado is a resident of Colorado for purposes of the state’s election law—the Supreme Court of Colorado said “no,” and a U.S. District Court would not have jurisdiction to overturn that decision—it’s whether Colorado’s requirement that petition-signature gatherers be residents of Colorado is a violation of the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause. I think that the federal judge’s ruling is quite a stretch, given that Article I of the Constitution authorizes states to establish the time, place and manner of congressional elections (subject to Congress’s right to alter such regulations, which Congress has not done in the case of petition-gathering requirements), and the Colorado law does not abridge a potential candidate’s right to obtain access to the ballot so long as he follows the same rules that apply to everyone else. I hope that this terrible ruling is overturned by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals so that it doesn’t become a precedent for future judicial skulduggery.