Jena Griswold, Secretary of State of Colorado, on the Merits for Respondent.
Jena Griswold is the Colorado secretary of state. Colorado is a respondent in this case because it is defending the decision by its state supreme court to remove Donald Trump from the Colorado primary ballot. The following is excerpted from the Brief for Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 31, 2024. The U.S. Constitution empowers states to conduct presidential primary elections at the direction of their state legislatures. For over a century, the Colorado legislature has used these far-reaching powers to instruct state courts to resolve ballot-access challenges. Here, Colorado’s courts followed the legislature’s direction in…
