A state judge in Colorado on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss the current case to remove him from the 2024 ballot in that state under the 14th Amendment.

“To be clear, I’m not deciding any of these issues,” The Hill reported 2nd Judicial District Court Judge Sarah B. Wallace saying Wednesday in denying the Trump campaign legal team’s motion to dismiss the case. “I’m denying the motion for directed verdict because in order to grant the motion for directed verdict, I would have to decide many legal issues that I’m simply not prepared to decide today.”

[This is a dumb case, but the judge doesn’t really have room for a directed verdict. There is no precedent on which to base a directed verdict; no one has tried this before, in all senses of the word. The judge will need to hear the legal arguments first and decide for herself. Eventually these will get into federal court, where judges may feel a little more sure-footed on outright dismissals. — Ed]