The US Supreme Court will hear Donald Trump’s appeal against a decision by Colorado to remove him from the 2024 state ballot under the 14th amendment to the US constitution for inciting an insurrection.
Trump’s Supreme Court Case Upcoming
The case will be heard in February, and the ruling will apply nationwide. There are lawsuits pending in a number of states which seek to disqualify Trump, claiming that he incited violence at the US Capitol three years ago when he told rioters to “fight like hell” to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden.
The legal contests all depend on whether a Civil-War era constitutional amendment renders Trump ineligible to stand as a candidate.
The Colorado supreme court ruled against Trump on December 19th, but the ruling was stayed until January 4th, shortly before the deadline for finalizing the ballot for the Republican primary in the western state.
The 14th amendment of the US Constitution bans anyone who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from holding federal office, but Trump’s lawyers claim it does not apply to the president.
The BBC reported his lawyers have argued that “the Colorado Supreme Court decision would unconstitutionally disenfranchise millions of voters in Colorado and likely be used as a template to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters nationwide.”
Trump has also lodged an appeal against a ruling by electoral officials in Maine to remove him from the ballot. The split 4-3 outcome by Colorado’s high court in December marks the first time in the nation’s history that the 14th amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate from the ballot.
Despite facing ninety-one criminal charges under four indictments and assorted civil threats, Trump is at present the front-runner for the Republicans, which would lead to a likely rematch against President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in this November election.
In June of last year, Donald Trump was indicted over his handling of classified documents after he left the White House. He became the first former President to be charged on Federal charges.
Trump faced seven charges, including unauthorized retention of classified files, US media reported.
The indictment stemmed from a months-long investigation into whether Trump broke the law by holding onto classified documents at his Palm Beach property, Mar-a-Lago, and obstructing the government’s efforts to recover them.
In 2022, eleven thousand documents were seized, including around a hundred marked as classified. Some of these were labeled top secret.
There were reports in late May of last year that prosecutors had obtained an audio recording of the former President in which he acknowledged keeping a classified document after leaving the White House in January 2021.
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