The United States Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will consider an appeal against the unprecedented decision taken by the Colorado Supreme Court to veto Donald Trump as a candidate in the presidential elections scheduled for November 5.
The Supreme Court set the first oral hearing of the case for February 8, which may affect other complaints filed against Trump for his involvement in the storming of the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, CNN reported.
“In our system of 'government of the people, by the people, for the people,' the Colorado decision is not and cannot be the right decision,” said the appeal filed by Trump's legal team, which highlights that the court's ruling “in our system of 'government of the people, by the people, for the people'.” “They have the power to deny” the former president “access” to the Republican primary.
The judges accepted the case with extraordinary speed. Trump, the most prominent candidate for the Republican Party nomination to compete with Democratic President Joe Biden in the November 5 elections, filed his appeal on Wednesday. The justices indicated they would expedite the decision, given that Colorado's Republican primary is scheduled for March 5.
A state court, as part of a challenge to Trump by Republican and unaffiliated voters in Colorado, found him ineligible for the presidency under a constitutional provision that bars anyone who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from holding public office, barring him from doing so. From running for primary elections.
Both Colorado and Maine (through their state Secretary Sheena Bellows) relied on the Constitution to disqualify an aspiring presidential candidate from the state's primaries for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on Democratic institutions. Trump's defense asked a court in Maine to overturn Sheena Bellows' decision.
Similar operations are underway in two other states, Oregon, Michigan and Wisconsin, led by groups of Republican and independent voters, and with the support of the NGO CREW, which works to promote transparency in politics.
In the Michigan and Wisconsin cases, the known court decisions so far refused to exclude Trump from the ballot box; The Oregon Supreme Court is expected to rule on the matter in the coming days.
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