DENVER (NEWSnet/AP) — Police said they are investigating incidents directed at Colorado Supreme Court justices — and providing extra patrols near their homes — after the court decided to remove Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot.

The Denver Police Department declined in an email to provide details about its investigations, citing safety and privacy considerations and because they are ongoing.

But the department "is currently investigating incidents directed at Colorado Supreme Court justices and will continue working with our local, state and federal law enforcement partners to thoroughly investigate any reports of threats or harassment," the email said.

Officers responded to the home of one justice on Thursday evening, but police said it appeared to be a “hoax report.” That case is also still being investigated, police said.

The FBI said it is working with local law enforcement on the matter.

"We will vigorously pursue investigations of any threat or use of violence committed by someone who uses extremist views to justify their actions regardless of motivation,” a spokesperson for the Denver's FBI office, Vikki Migoya, said in a statement.

In a 4-to-3 decision last week, Colorado's highest court overturned a ruling from a district court judge who found that Trump incited an insurrection for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but had said he could not be barred from the ballot because it was unclear whether the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause was intended to cover the presidency. The incident happened in the last days of Trump's term in office.

The state’s highest court didn’t agree, siding with attorneys for six Colorado Republican and unaffiliated voters who argued that it was nonsensical to imagine that the framers of the amendment would bar certain people from lower offices but not the highest one in the land.

The court stayed its decision until Jan. 4, or until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the case.

Colorado officials say the issue must be settled by Jan. 5, the deadline for the state to print its presidential primary ballots. 

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