The US Supreme Court has said it will review the Colorado Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision removing former President Donald Trump from that state’s ballot.
The court on Friday evening, January 5 said it had scheduled oral arguments for February 8.
Trump remains on the primary ballot as the lower-court ruling disqualifying him has been put on hold pending Supreme Court action. If the justices do conclude Trump is ineligible for public office, then any votes cast for him wouldn’t count.
The high court’s decision to hear the case puts the nine justices in center position of the 2024 election as voting starts in the early primary contests and represents the court’s most significant involvement in a presidential race since its highly consequential decision 23 years ago in Bush v. Gore.
Though the Colorado ruling applies only to that state, courts in several other states have also reviewed challenges to Trump’s eligibility, though no such case has made it as far as the one in Colorado, leaving
Last week, Maine’s secretary of state removed Trump from that state’s 2024 primary ballot, and the former president’s team on Tuesday appealed that decision in state court. The Oregon Supreme Court could also soon rule on a bid to remove Trump from that state’s primary and general election ballots because of his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection
Trump’s campaign said it welcomes a “fair hearing” at the Supreme Court over the Colorado ballot challenge.
Prize Bond 2020
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