The United States Supreme Court has announced that it will review the Colorado Supreme Court's decision that disqualified former US President Donald Trump from the state's Republican primaries, citing his direct involvement in the attack on declared the Capitol ineligible for election on January 6, 2021. The Supreme Court The court will consider Trump's appeal to overturn the Colorado ruling on February 8.
THE Colorado Supreme Court found that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, passed after the Civil War and prohibiting those who participated in an insurrection from running for public office, applied to the former president. Colorado's chief justices have suspended the application of the decision to bar Trump from the vote, precisely to allow for the possible and expected intervention of America's highest judicial body. Colorado's Republican primary is scheduled for March 5.
“If judges concluded before Colorado’s March 5 primary that Trump is ineligible for public office, the votes cast for him would not count,” CNN notes.
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