(Townhall) Update: Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung has released a statement about the Court’s announcement. “We welcome a fair hearing at the Supreme Court to argue against the bad-faith, election-interfering, voter-suppressing, Democrat-backed and Biden-led, 14th Amendment abusing decision to remove President Trump’s name from the 2024 ballot in the state of Colorado. The so-called “ballot-challenge cases” are all part of a well-funded effort by left-wing, political activists hell-bent on stopping the lawful reelection of President Trump this November, even if it means disenfranchising voters. President Trump is dominating the polls, and the Biden presidency has failed all Americans. We are confident that the fair-minded Supreme Court will unanimously affirm the civil rights of President Trump, and the voting rights of all Americans in a ruling that will squash all of the remaining ballot challenge hoaxes once and for all,” he said.
Original: On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would take up the case involving Colorado banning former President Donald Trump from the ballot. The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision came last month, a decision which Trump’s campaign vowed to appeal, with that appeal being filed on Wednesday.
Supreme Court grants cert in the Trump disqualification case, on a super-compressed timeline. Oral argument in a month. (The right move, I think.) pic.twitter.com/V5GkmXArDJ
— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) January 5, 2024
“The justices’ order sets the case up to be heard at a speedy pace, with oral arguments scheduled for Feb. 8 and a decision to follow that could spark Trump’s removal from the ballot in states across the country,” reporting from The Hill noted. There have been numerous other efforts to kick Trump off of the ballot, though almost all have failed.
As for how the case is set to go, many are expecting the justices to find in favor of Trump. “The Colorado Supreme Court was just begging the justices to review its decision because it was wrong in so many ways. Just to name a few, Trump was not charged with, no less convicted of, insurrection; Section 3 applies to presidential electors but not to the president; and Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment gives Congress, not the states, the power to enforce the amendment,” Curt Levey, a constitutional law attorney and the president of the Committee for Justice, offered in a statement for Townhall.
Although he himself doesn’t know if it will be a unanimous reversal, Levey also offered “it’s hard to imagine more than one or two justices voting to uphold the Colorado Supreme Court, given how legally flawed the Colorado decision was and how obvious it is that what can legally be done to Trump by partisan state officials can also legally be done to Democrat candidates.”
As The Hill also went on to note, speaking about the move to kick Trump off the ballot not only out of Colorado, but Maine:
Not only did the Colorado Supreme Court rule that Trump was ineligible according to Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, but so did Maine Secretary of State Shenna Lee Bellows, who was elected not by voters, but by the Democratic-controlled state legislature. She also has been quite cozy with President Joe Biden, which has been sharply criticized, as 2024 likely being a rematch from 2020 between Trump and President Joe Biden.
