By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics
Colorado House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese and a fellow Republican legislator on Wednesday called on the chamber’s Democratic speaker to bring to the floor a resolution to impeach Secretary of State Jena Griswold, arguing that Griswold’s “partisan political ideology” has prevented the Democrat from carrying out her duties.
In a letter delivered late Wednesday to House Speaker Julie McCluskie by Pugliese and state Rep. Ryan Armagost, nearly every member of the House Republican caucus insisted that Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision keeping Donald Trump on Colorado’s presidential primary ballot underlines the urgency of their impeachment resolution, which the lawmakers say was submitted to the speaker’s office nearly a month ago.
Griswold, an attorney, expressed support in recent months for a December ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that removed Trump from the state ballot in response to a lawsuit filed by Republican and unaffiliated voters, who alleged the former president was ineligible under a constitutional provision that bars certain federal officials from holding office if they have “engaged in insurrection.”