28 December 2023

Fast-Track to Supreme Court challenge

 


The voters who won in the Colorado Supreme Court want to move even faster. The Supreme Court was asked on Thursday to fast-track its review of the stunning Colorado Supreme Court ruling that former President Donald J. Trump was ineligible to appear on the state's primary ballot.1 hour ago 

Scripps News
Colorado urges US Supreme Court to quickly consider Trump case
After the Colorado Republican Party filed an appeal in hopes of allowing former President Donald Trump to be on the state's primary ballot,...
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7 hours ago

Yahoo News NZ
Trump tells Jack Smith to ‘go to hell’ as campaign prepares Supreme Court challenge
The former president's legal team is expected to challenge a landmark Colorado ruling at the highest court.
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2 days ago

5 minutes ago — Maine has become the second state to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot, citing the 14th Amendment's ban on anyone who engaged in insurrection holding ...

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US Supreme Court officially asked to take up Trump's 14th Amendment issue -  POLITICO
  1. The office of the presidency is not covered by the 14th Amendment, the insurrection clause is not “self-executing” — meaning Congress alone must enforce it, and 
  2. states cannot make that determination on their own — and that 
  3. by kicking Trump off the primary ballot, the state Republican Party’s First Amendment rights of association have been violated.

The justices in the majority in the 4-3 ruling in Colorado noted that they were treading on unfamiliar territory at the time, but ultimately found Trump was culpable for the violence at the U.S. Capitol more than two years ago.

“President Trump did not merely incite the insurrection. Even when the siege on the Capitol was fully underway, he continued to support it,” the majority wrote. “These actions constituted overt, voluntary, and direct participation in the insurrection.”

The U.S. Supreme Court does not have any set timeline for when — or if — they must take up the case. But many legal experts have urged the court to weigh in expediently, as to resolve the issue as far in advance of the 2024 election as possible. . .


Trump Asks Supreme Court to Put Off Hearing Case on Immunity Claim - The  New York Times
Supreme Court Urged to Move Fast on Trump's Ballot Eligibility - The New  York Times

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