US Supreme Courtroom agreed on Friday to listen to Donald Trump’s attraction of a ruling by Colorado’s highest courtroom.
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The US Supreme Courtroom agreed on Friday to listen to Donald Trump’s attraction of a ruling by Colorado’s highest courtroom that may preserve him off the presidential main poll within the western state.
The conservative-majority Supreme Courtroom, which incorporates three justices appointed by the previous president, mentioned it will hear oral arguments within the high-stakes election case on February 8.
The Colorado Supreme Courtroom barred Trump final month from showing on the Republican presidential main poll within the state due to his position within the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol by his supporters.
Attorneys for Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, urged the US Supreme Courtroom earlier this week to listen to the case and “summarily reverse the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling.”
They mentioned the Colorado ruling, “if allowed to stand, will mark the first time in the history of the United States that the judiciary has prevented voters from casting ballots for the leading major-party presidential candidate.
“The query of eligibility to function President of the US is correctly reserved for Congress, not the state courts, to contemplate and resolve,” they added.
The 77-year-old Trump has also lodged an appeal against a ruling by the top election official in Maine that would keep him off the primary ballot in the northeastern state.
Trump’s attorneys urged the Maine Superior Court to toss out the ruling by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, calling her a “biased decision-maker” who “acted in an arbitrary and capricious method.”
The Colorado Supreme Court and Maine secretary of state both ruled that Trump is ineligible to appear on the primary ballot because of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
Section Three of the 14th Amendment bars people from holding public office if they engaged in “riot or riot” after once pledging to support and defend the Constitution.
The amendment, ratified in 1868 after the US Civil War, was aimed at preventing supporters of the slave-holding Confederacy from being elected to Congress or from holding federal positions.
Similar 14th Amendment challenges to Trump’s eligibility have been filed in other states as well. Courts in Minnesota and Michigan recently ruled that Trump should stay on the ballot in those states.
Separately, the twice-impeached former president is scheduled to go on trial in Washington in March for conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
He also faces racketeering charges in Georgia for allegedly conspiring to upend the election results in the southern state.
Maine and Colorado hold their presidential nominating contests on March 5 — also known as “Tremendous Tuesday” — when voters in additional than a dozen states, together with California and Texas, go to the polls.
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