The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to review Colorado’s unprecedented decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot.
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled 4-3 last month that Trump could not appear on the ballot, citing the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment. Trump filed an appeal on Wednesday, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the state’s ruling, and the court has agreed to look at the case, The Hill reported.
“The Colorado Supreme Court has no authority to deny President Trump access to the ballot. By doing so, the Colorado Supreme Court has usurped Congressional authority and misinterpreted and misapplied the text of section 3,” Trump’s lawyers Scott Gessler of Gessler Blue LLC along with Harmeet Dhillon, David Warrington, Jonathan Shaw, and Gary Lawkowski of Dhillon Law Group Inc. wrote in court filings.
Per the justices’ order, the…
