The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue at least one ruling on Monday, the day before Colorado’s presidential primary election, in which it will rule on lower courts participating in riots during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Because of this, the front-runner Donald Trump was removed from the ballot. .
In an unusual Sunday update, the Supreme Court did not say what decision it would make. But the justices are scheduled to hear arguments in Trump’s appeal of the Colorado ruling on February 8 and issue their own ruling.
Colorado is one of 15 U.S. territories whose primary elections are held on Super Tuesday. Trump is the front-runner for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden in the November 5 election.
Colorado Republicans have asked the Supreme Court, a 6-3 conservative majority that includes three justices appointed by President Trump, to rule on the voting eligibility case by Tuesday.
During arguments, the justices expressed sympathy for Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s December 19 ruling disqualifying him from voting under the 14th Amendment.
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment bars the holding of public office of any “officer of the United States” who has sworn an oath to “support the Constitution of the United States” and who has subsequently “engaged in insurrection or insurrection against the Constitution, or who has been given aid or comfort.” Forbidden. against that enemy. ”
Trump supporters attacked police and stormed the Capitol to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. In advance of the attack, President Trump gave an inflammatory speech to his supporters, telling them to go to the Capitol and “fight like hell.” He then refused for hours requests for the mob to stop.
Anti-Trump forces have sought to disbar him in more than 20 other states over his actions related to the Jan. 6 attack, but efforts have largely failed. Maine and Illinois have also banned Trump from voting, but both decisions are on hold pending a Colorado Supreme Court ruling.
During arguments in the Colorado case, Supreme Court justices, conservatives and liberals alike, expressed concern that the state would take drastic action that could affect presidential elections across the country.
After newsletter promotion
They are considering how states can properly enforce Article III disqualification language against candidates, and some wonder if that would require Congress to pass legislation first. There was also
