In what may be one of the most consequential election cases ever heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, the nine justices listened Thursday to 80 minutes of lawyers’ oral arguments over the attempt by political activists to knock Donald Trump off the primary ballot in Colorado (and other states).
Although all of the justices asked tough questions of both sides in the case, Trump v. Anderson, the lawyer for the activists seemed to have the hardest time satisfying their concerns.
The essence of the case is the decision by four justices of the Colorado Supreme Court, over the dissents of three colleagues, that because Trump engaged in an “insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, he is disqualified from being president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and thus may be removed from the ballot.
If the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the Colorado high court’s…
