The Colorado Supreme Court took the bold step, the one the lower court judge couldn’t take for fear of reprisals? I hope the precedent has been set and others follow.
There is no earthly reason for Trump to have gotten as far as he has—other than certain Constitutional provisions and political assumptions which are now, finally, being questioned; also the aforementioned fear, and legal processes that can be slowed to a snail’s pace by appeals and creative jurisprudence—i.e., lawyers pulling out all the stops, doing and saying whatever it takes to keep their troubled client happy and one step ahead of the jailer.