Former Attorney General Bill Barr said the country's efforts to keep former President Trump from the primary ballot for the upcoming election are “counterproductive” and actually increase Trump's chances of victory.
“Regardless of what I think about Trump and the fact that I oppose his renomination, I think he should be defeated at the voting booth.” Barr told Fox News' Neil Cavuto on Saturday. “And I think these heavy-handed efforts to disenfranchise his supporters are counterproductive. If anything, they make him stronger.”
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case challenging whether President Trump's actions surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol can disqualify him from voting in Colorado.
The justices are scheduled to hear the case on a short schedule, with oral arguments scheduled for Feb. 8 and whether to keep Trump on the primary ballot or remove him from both Colorado and other states nationwide. A decision is expected to be made.
Barr, who served as attorney general for former President George H.W. He also believes that the incident will be brought under control very quickly.
Barr, who did not endorse Trump in the primary, focused his criticism on how the Colorado court ruling was handed down, rather than what it was.
Trump's voting future is also under threat in Maine. The former president on Tuesday appealed the secretary of state's decision to exclude him from voting, sending the case to state court.
Barr said he believed it would be impossible to deny Trump the opportunity to participate in the primary ballot as a legal matter.
“Every state can't make its own rules about what constitutes an insurrection and how much evidence is needed to determine that someone is involved in an insurrection,” Barr said, adding that Congress must He added that there is a need to define 14 rebellions.th The amendment bill should be implemented.
In an op-ed published in the Free Press on Tuesday, Barr argued that efforts to remove Trump from the primary ballot are “legally doomed to fail.”
Dozens of challenges to Trump's eligibility for president under 14 years oldth Amendments have been filed nationwide, but many have been rejected by lower courts. The decisions in Colorado and Maine are unusual steps in the electoral process.
The Supreme Court's decision to hear the Colorado case puts the former president's political fate in the hands of a court dominated by conservatives, including three Trump appointees. and will probably determine the meaning of the ban on insurrection.
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