2024 Republican presidential primary candidate and former President Donald Trump has filed an appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar his name from the state’s primary ballot to the United States Supreme Court, in which he asks the Justices to “reverse the Colorado ruling in a summary decision without oral argument”:
“The Colorado Supreme Court has no authority to deny President Trump access to the ballot,” Trump’s attorneys wrote in the petition. “By doing so, the Colorado Supreme Court has usurped Congressional authority and misinterpreted and misapplied the text of section 3.”
Trump’s petition asks that the Supreme Court agree to take up the case and immediately reverse the Colorado ruling in a summary decision without oral argument. The other parties in the case previously agreed the justices should hear the case on an expedited schedule, so a…
