The Republican National Committee joined 27 GOP state attorneys general to file briefs Friday urging the Supreme Court to strike down the Colorado High Court's recent decision to keep Trump off the primary ballot because of dubious claims he violated the 14th Amendment and incited an "insurrection" on J6. 

As we reported earlier, on Friday afternoon SCOTUS agreed to hear the case, which is expected to be ruled on relatively quickly.

READ: BREAKING: SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Trump Colorado Ballot Ban Case

The RNC filed a 34-page amicus brief, while the state AGs filed a 22-pager of their own. The RNC warned of chaos if the former President were to be banned from the ballot when he has neither been charged nor convicted of "insurrection":

In the RNC brief, the primary arm of the party called the Colorado Supreme Court's recent decision "historically implausible" and made with a "slew of legal errors that this Court should reject." It said the opinion violates the First Amendment rights of Republicans, as it interferes with political-party primaries.

The RNC also argued that the decision to keep Trump off of the GOP primary ballot "undermines the people’s right to judge who is best to represent them." And it claimed that if Trump is left off of the Colorado primary ballots there will be "chaos in our country" due to the "obvious risk of escalation as political opponents fight to have each other removed from the ballot."

BREAKING: A coalition of 27 states’ Attorneys General led by Indiana AG Todd Rokita and West Virginia AG Patrick Morrisey support Donald Trump’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to appear on the Colorado primary ballot pic.twitter.com/YlyQwK35Ha

— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) January 5, 2024

The brief also pointed out that if the Colorado Supreme Court's decision were allowed to stand, keeping people off the ballot will become a common political tactic. "That chaos is unlikely to be limited to a single candidate or election. Once state courts begin purging candidates from the ballot, political opponents will begin picking each other off, harming confidence in our electoral processes," they wrote.

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel posted about the effort on social media, calling the 14th Amendment claim "an attack" on our system:

The @GOP is proud to file an amicus brief in the Supreme Court with the @NRCC to ensure that the American people have the right to choose their president.

The effort to remove Donald Trump from the presidential ballot is an attack on our electoral system.https://t.co/IOrKwDzjMM

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) January 5, 2024

The 27 GOP state attorneys general made similar arguments, saying that Colorado's decision will not impact just the Centennial State but the entire country as a whole:

In the state amicus brief led by Indiana Attorney General Theodore Rokita and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, the states argue in seeking the Supreme Court's "immediate intervention" that Colorado's decision "has vast consequences" beyond the Rocky Mountain State.

"The Colorado court’s decision will create widespread chaos. Most obviously, it casts confusion into an election cycle that is just weeks away. Beyond that, it upsets the respective roles of the Congress, the States, and the courts," wrote the coalition of 27 state Republican AGs and the GOP leaders of the Arizona state legislature.

The RNC and the state attorneys general are right -- Colorado's decision was truly deplorable, to use a word favored by Hillary Clinton, and would upend our political system if allowed to stand. Keeping candidates off the ballot is the method third-world dictators and folks like Vladimir Putin use to stay in power. 

Ever since Donald Trump came down the golden escalator in 2015, Democrats have been screeching about how he's a "danger to democracy" -- but we're watching them attack our democratic institutions in real-time. 

SCOTUS must put an end to this nonsense.