The Colorado Supreme Court concluded that the violent attempts of
the petitioner supporters.
In this case, to halt the count on January 6
qualified as an insurrection.
As defined by Section 3,
and I read your opening brief to accept.
That those events counted as an insurrection.
But then your reply seemed to suggest that they were
not.
So what? What is your position?
We never accepted or conceded in our opening brief that
this was an insurrection.
What we said in our opening brief was President Trump
did not engage in any act that can plausibly be
characterized as instrument.
What is your argument that it's not?
Your reply brief says that it wasn't,
because I think you say it did not involve an
organized attempt to overthrow the government.
One of many reasons, but for an insurrection,
there needs to be an organized,
concerted effort to overthrow the government of the United States
through violence and this.
So the point is that a chaotic effort to overthrow
the government is not an insurrection.
We didn't concede that. It's an effort to overthrow the
government either.
Justice Jackson. Right. None of these criteria were met.
This was a riot. It was not an insurrection.
The events were shameful, criminal,
violent, all of those things.
But did not qualify as insurrection as that term is
used in Section 3.
Thank you. Thanks. Thank you,
Council. Thank you.