An intruder broke into the building of the Colorado Supreme Court building overnight. The suspect was arrested after he allegedly fired shots. No one was hurt. A fire was also reported.

An intruder shot out a window of the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center, entered the building, and held an unarmed security guard at gunpoint early Tuesday morning. The suspect was arrested after allegedly firing additional shots and starting a fire inside the building that is the home of the Colorado Supreme Court and the Colorado Court of Appeals.

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The Colorado Supreme Court made headlines late last year when it ruled that former President Donald Trump is disqualified from holding the presidency under the Constitution’s so-called insurrection clause and ordered the secretary of state to exclude his name from the state’s Republican presidential primary ballot. That decision has been appealed.

  • FishFace@lemmy.world
    512·
    11 months ago

    There’s currently nothing to suggest a link with the ruling about the ruling on the office of president. The timeline makes it sound like the nutjob pulled a gun in a roadrage incident then tried to hide out in the courthouse.

    • Ranvier
      292·
      11 months ago

      Thanks for pointing this out. Of course the article leaves that this incident is believed to be unconnected to the ruling to the last line. Not that it would be entirely unexpected if it did happen considering the amount of threats they’ve been getting and the terroristic rhetoric of republicans.

    • audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      13·
      11 months ago

      This is accurate, BUT

      I wouldn’t expect police to look into a link, nor would I expect the most conservative of the mainstream networks to report on it if there was.

    • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      11 months ago

      There’s currently nothing to suggest a link with the ruling about the ruling on the office of president.

      Doesn’t matter. The optics will be that the CSC was attacked because of the ruling removing Trump from the ballot. That is how it is going to be portrayed by the people, and the media is almost guaranteed to fuel the flames by adding “Shortly after the ruling, the CSC was involved in an act of domestic terrorism” without adding the proper context.

      And I expect it to have a chilling effect on future rulings. Judges and jurors are still human beings, and we’ve already seen plenty of evidence of multiple government officials up and down the political ladder who refuse to rule against Trump due to fears of physical violence.