Trump Ballot Challenges are very varied in strategy and appearance
The Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling on the 14th Amendment is “fool” and “fubly” justified in arguing that the U.S. supreme court of high state is a bad-faith
The 14th Amendment was enacted in the years after the Civil War to prevent former members of the Confederacy from holding elected office. It has been used minimally in the more than 150 years since.
The U.S. Supreme Court is primed to play a significant role in the election, between Trump’s ballot eligibility and his claims of presidential immunity, among other consequential decisions awaiting their review. Trump himself nominated three of the justices on the bench.
Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard law professor, told NPR that the election in 2024 is going to be hard. The better off we are the sooner we know what the fundamental rules are. It’s important that the court resolves this as soon as possible.
Election officials and legal scholars have long said the country’s high court needs to weigh in on the myriad 14th Amendment challenges before voters cast ballots in presidential primaries.
The Colorado justices stayed their ruling pending U.S. Supreme Court review, meaning that Trump will indeed appear on the state’s primary ballot unless the nation’s top court declines to take up the case, or agrees with the Colorado decision. The ballot for the primary will be certified on Friday.
“We want to make it crystal clear that Trump does not want the execution of a free and fair election or the Colorado Supreme Court’s wrongful ruling” Steven Cheung said in a statement.
Trump said that the decisions were part of an attempt by his opponents to stop him from winning the presidency. There are more than 80 charges against him, including federal charges, in four venues.
Maine became the second State after the Secretary of state ruled that Trump was ineligible under the 14th Amendment. Trump appealed that decision in the Maine state court system.
Former President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a landmark decision by Colorado’s top court that ruled him ineligible from appearing on that state’s primary ballot.
The Trump campaign described the lawsuits in a statement last week as bad-faith, politically motivated attempts to steal the election, saying Democrats had launched a multifront campaign to disenfranchised tens of millions of Americans. Mr. Cheung did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
The issue could not be more urgent: Republican presidential primary elections and caucuses begin this month, and polls have shown Mr. Trump with a commanding lead over his opponents.
A State-Defeasible Test of the Eligibility of the Ex-President of a U.S. Senate Insurrection
There are three different types of lawsuits: Mr. Castro’s, state challenges and one-off cases brought by local residents. In Maine, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Wisconsin, voters have questioned Mr. Trumps eligibility directly with a secretary of state or election commission rather than in court. In California and New York, some elected officials have written letters pushing for elections officers in those states to disqualify or consider disqualifying the former president.
Most establishment Democrats have not taken a strong stance on the issue. President Biden said after the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that it was “self-evident” that Mr. Trump had supported an insurrection, but that it was up to the judiciary to determine his eligibility for the ballot. Several Democratic secretaries of state, who in much of the country are their states’ chief election officers, have included Mr. Trump on candidate lists and deferred to the courts on the question of his eligibility.
