United States Supreme Court Plans On Hearing Donald Trump Ballot Ban Appeal
Jose Nino
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The United States Supreme Court has agreed to determine whether Colorado can prohibit Donald Trump from being on the presidential ballot. This could bring about a potentially landmark legal decision that could have major implications for the 2024 presidential election in the US.
On late January 5, 2024 the Supreme Court announced that it would hear the case, with arguments to take place on February 8.
Trump is the prohibitive favorite to win the GOP nomination and every legal obstacle thrown in front of him has only consolidated his support.
During a rally in Sioux City, Iowa, on January 5, shortly after the Supreme Court made its announcement that it would hear his case, Trump stated: “All I want is fair. I fought really hard to get three very, very good people, and they’re great people, very smart people.”
He continued: “And I just hope they’re going to be fair, because, you know, the other side plays the ref.”
The Supreme Court’s announcement came just two days after Trump petitioned the court to overturn a decision by Colorado’s State
Supreme Court to bar him from the primary ballot there.
The Colorado Supreme Court issued its ruling back in January, declaring he was not fit to serve as president as outlined by the 14th amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibits individuals who have participated in insurrections or rebellions from holding higher office. These charges come from Trump’s allegedly insurrectionist actions on January 6 2021, when his supporters stormed the US Capitol to storm Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory, which was mired in controversy.
Trump believes he is being politically persecuted, and claims that the Biden regime and the Democratic establishment are attempting to remove him off the ballot.
In the appeal he submitted to the Supreme Court, Trump’s legal counsel stated that the Colorado judges had “misinterpreted and misapplied the text” of the constitution by drawing on the 14th amendment. Trump’s lawyers argued that the US Congress, not the court, are the ones with the power to determine who was eligible to run for president, and contended that Trump had not engaged in insurrectionary behavior on January 6.
The Trump campaign declared the following in a statement: “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.”
Trump’s present ordeal represents the lengths the ruling class will go to destroy right-wing opposition in the US. These people don’t like debate and want to ensure attaining political hegemony at all costs.
Only a resolute opposition to this tyrannical movement can prevent the US falling down a tyrannical path.
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