John,

I wanted to remind you that I will be doing a briefing for CREW supporters at 2pm ET today on the latest developments in CREW's efforts to hold insurrectionists accountable.

In case you can’t make it to the call, you can get up to speed by reading an op-ed from Donald Sherman, our Executive Vice President, and me on MSNBC.com. In the op-ed, we dove into two vital aspects of our lawsuit that deserve more attention.

The justices did *not* substantively take issue with the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection. That finding followed weeks of pre-trial briefing and a five-day evidentiary hearing in which both the petitioners and Trump presented their case, including hours of video evidence, thousands of pages of documents and testimony and cross examination of 15 witnesses.

The Supreme Court’s decision not to touch the evidentiary aspect of the Colorado decision affirms that it was based on a solid foundation. And it means that every decision-maker who has substantively looked at the issue has found that January 6th was an insurrection and that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection.

Another key aspect of the Supreme Court decision is the finding that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment *can* be enforced on the state level against state candidates.

Just this week, the Supreme Court followed through on that decision by declining to hear Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin's appeal in a 14th Amendment case that CREW brought that removed him from office in 2022.

John, this gives us a path forward to hold other insurrectionists accountable in the future.

Thanks for your support. If you have the time, read our full op-ed below.

Noah Bookbinder
President
CREW

We sued Trump in Colorado. The Supreme Court's ruling did not exonerate him.

By Noah Bookbinder and Donald K. Sherman

Conventional wisdom regarding the Supreme Court’s decision Monday allowing Donald Trump to remain on the Colorado state primary ballot is that this is a big victory for the former president. And the decision does allow Trump’s presidential campaign to continue. But we’d argue that this perspective misses a key part of the ruling — and one that is far less positive for the GOP front-runner.

The Supreme Court had every opportunity to exonerate Trump for his actions during the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and it did not. The justices did not substantively take issue at all with the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision that Trump engaged in insurrection for the purposes of the 14th Amendment. We believe he is still constitutionally disqualified from holding office under Section 3 of the amendment. What the court did do is remove one of the enforcement mechanisms.

Read the rest of the op-ed on MSNBC.