The Supreme Court is scheduled to announce its ruling Monday morning regarding former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot.
The high court said in a statement Sunday that it expected to issue at least one ruling on the landmark voting case on Monday, to be posted online at 10 a.m.
President Trump, 77, and his lawyers are hopeful that the Colorado Supreme Court’s Dec. 19 ruling will be overturned. The ruling ruled that the former president was ineligible to run in the March 5 Republican election campaign because he violated the Constitution’s so-called “insurrection clause.” January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
The Supreme Court’s decision will determine whether the top Republican candidate can appear on Colorado’s ballots ahead of the upcoming Super Tuesday primary, and the case could affect whether he can run in the general election. give.
The Supreme Court justices are not scheduled to return to court until March 15, so the court will be “absent from the bench” when it announces its decision in the case on Monday.Opinions will be posted online from 10 a.m.
Trump’s lawyers argue that the Insurrection Clause is the prerogative of Congress, not the states, to enforce it and that it does not apply to the presidency.
The leading Republican candidate also insists he did not incite an insurrection when hundreds of his supporters stormed the Capitol and disrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
The Supreme Court has previously signaled it may side with Mr. Trump during oral arguments, with Chief Justice John Roberts saying that if it upholds the Colorado ruling, red and blue states will be able to elect politicians from opposing parties to their ballots on a whim. He publicly expressed concern that this would open the door for him to be removed from the country.
“It’s going to be just a handful of states that decide the presidential election. That’s a pretty scary outcome,” Roberts noted.
Alongside the voting case, the Supreme Court is also considering a second case over whether President Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for plotting to overturn the 2020 election results.
In April, the court is also scheduled to hear an appeal from one of the more than 1,200 people charged in the Capitol riot. The case could overturn charges prosecutors have filed against more than 300 people, including Trump.
