US Supreme Court Will Decide If Trump Can Be Included In 2024 Election Ballot

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The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign. 

The justices acknowledged the need to reach a decision quickly, as voters will soon begin casting presidential primary ballots across the country. The court agreed to take up Trump’s appeal of a case from Colorado stemming from his role in the events that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

Underscoring the urgency, arguments will be held on Feb. 8, during what is normally a nearly monthlong winter break for the justices. The compressed timeframe could allow the court to produce a decision before Super Tuesday on March 5, when the largest number of delegates are up for grabs in a single day, including in Colorado.

Trump’s campaign welcomed Friday’s announcement. “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,” spokesman Steven Cheung said.

The court will be considering for the first time the meaning and reach of a provision of the 14th Amendment barring some people who “engaged in insurrection” from holding public office. The amendment was adopted in 1868, following the Civil War. It has been so rarely used that the nation’s highest court had no previous occasion to interpret it.

Colorado’s Supreme Court, by a 4-3 vote, ruled last month that Trump should not be on the Republican primary ballot. The decision was the first time the 14th Amendment was used to bar a presidential contender from the ballot.

Trump is separately appealing to state court a ruling by Maine’s Democratic secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, that he was ineligible to appear on that state’s ballot over his role in the Capitol attack. Both the Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine secretary of state’s rulings are on hold until the appeals play out.

The high court’s decision to intervene, which both sides called for, is the most direct involvement in a presidential election since Bush v. Gore in 2000, when a conservative majority effectively decided the election for Republican George W. Bush. Only Justice Clarence Thomas remains from that court.

Three of the nine Supreme Court justices were appointed by Trump, though they have repeatedly ruled against him in 2020 election-related lawsuits, as well as his efforts to keep documents related to Jan. 6 and his tax returns from being turned over to congressional committees.

At the same time, Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh have been in the majority of conservative-driven decisions that overturned the five-decade-old constitutional right to abortion, expanded gun rights and struck down affirmative action in college admissions.

Some Democratic lawmakers have called on Thomas to step aside from the case because of his wife’s support for Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the election, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden. Thomas is unlikely to agree, and there was every indication Friday that all the justices are participating. Thomas has recused himself from only one other case related to the 2020 election, involving former law clerk John Eastman, and so far the people trying to disqualify Trump haven’t asked him to recuse.

The issue of whether Trump can be on the ballot is not the only matter related to the former president or Jan. 6 that has reached the high court. The justices last month declined a request from special counsel Jack Smith to swiftly take up and rule on Trump’s claims that he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, though the issue could be back before the court soon depending on the ruling of a Washington-based appeals court. 

And the court has said that it intends to hear an appeal that could upend hundreds of charges stemming from the Capitol riot, including against Trump.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-insurrection-2024-election-0baac5ba0c1868e437e365af17eeab24

[bionic 50,111]

I am confident the Republican-stuffed Supreme Court will side with Trump

[weed 78,957]

ooooo mama the supreme court pisses me off

[REALITY 80,166]

They have every reason to not include him in the ballots, but they'll keep him anyways for political reasons and say sh*t like "It'll only divide the country further if we remove him from the ballot". As if the country hasn't already been heavily divided for the past 8 years...

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24 minutes ago, bionic said:

I am confident the Republican-stuffed Supreme Court will side with Trump

The fact that the court is conservative majority right now might not help as much as people think

There is dark money influence over the court and those rich republicans mostly do not actually like Trump.

Their problem has been that if they try to get rid of trump, he attacks them and having him in power seems to be the only way they can currently gain power.  But they don't like him.

Even Rupert Murdoch and Fox News tried to take him down and he unleashed a fury on them and slowly strong armed the support back in his favor.

These rich conservatives also know that if trump loses the GOP primaries, he will likely seek to sink the party and probably mount a 3rd party run which would likely lead to a democrat victory.

BUT THIS

This is a way for these rich sons-of-bitches to FINALLY put a knife in Trump's back in a way that he is completely neutered.  It'll keep him off the ballot and be used as evidence in his criminal trial about Jan 6 in DC.

JUST PRAY I'M RIGHT!!!!  

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33 minutes ago, bionic said:

I am confident the Republican-stuffed Supreme Court will side with Trump

They've actually ruled against him many times already. But personally, I have no confidence in how this will go.

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33 minutes ago, bionic said:

I am confident the Republican-stuffed Supreme Court will side with Trump

Yep but it'll be in a technical kind of side-step instead of outright saying he's qualified. They'll most likely say that the original meaning of the amendment was meant for confederates & since Trump isn't advocating for the confederate states or secession they'll say it doesn't apply.

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7 minutes ago, Bonkers said:

This is a way for these rich sons-of-bitches to FINALLY put a knife in Trump's back in a way that he is completely neutered.  It'll keep him off the ballot and be used as evidence in his criminal trial about Jan 6 in DC.

The downside for the court is in the threats of personal violence that they'll get from Trump supporters. It shouldn't matter that much, but apparently that's the only reason he wasn't convicted in his second impeachment -- cowardly senators.

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39 minutes ago, Reality said:

They have every reason to not include him in the ballots, but they'll keep him anyways for political reasons and say sh*t like "It'll only divide the country further if we remove him from the ballot". As if the country hasn't already been heavily divided for the past 8 years...

Yeah watch them say that it’s too close to the election or some ish

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I'd personally keep him on the ballot. Having him essentially banned from an election is only going to feed into his victimhood and sway potential supporters who may perceive it as an undemocratic move. 

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7 minutes ago, Inactive said:

Democracy will DIE if we don't remove a candidate who stands a good chance at winning the election, because if we don't REMOVE him from the ballot DEMOCRACY will be threatened becuase this facist wants to get rid of DEMOCRACY, I mean didn't he ask Georgia to recount their votes? How dare he. Let's remove him from the ballot so he can't win to SAVE DEMOCRACY.

You really think you did sum here huh 

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Am I wrong for thinking the Supreme Court might ban him?

like I know it’s a slim chance based on how conservative the Supreme Court is now but idk I feel like they might do a switcheroo 

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6 minutes ago, Inactive said:

Yes I'm supporting saving democracy!!  The people are too stupid to know what's good for them, removing their candidate of choice to bar him from regaining office is the only way to save our democracy! #DemocracyDiesInDarkness

We'Re NoT a DeMoCrAcY wE'rE a RePuBlIc

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8 hours ago, thatboyisarobot said:

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