DONALD TRUMP is ineligible to stand for the US presidency under the constitution’s anti-insurrection clause, the Colorado Supreme Court has said, in a ruling that removed him from the state’s election ballot.

Tuesday’s decision marks the first time in history that section three of the 14th amendment, which bars from office anyone who has sworn an oath to “support” the constitution and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against it, has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate.

Colorado’s highest court overturned a ruling by a district court judge that, while the former president had incited an insurrection by virtue of his role in the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol, he could not be barred from the ballot because it was unclear that the provision was intended to cover the presidency.