Supreme Court to consider whether Trump can be barred from ballots
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it would take up the case involving Colorado barring former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s 2024 ballot over his actions surrounding the Jan.
6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. In a brief, unsigned order issued on Friday, the court granted the petition for review. In their order the justices granted only the former president’s petition for review and sets the case up to be heard at a rapid pace, with oral arguments now scheduled for Feb.
8 and a decision to follow that could spark Trump’s removal from the ballot in states across the country. Trump will file his opening brief on Jan.
18, with the response by the Colorado voters and Colorado’s secretary of state to follow on Jan. 31. Trump’s reply brief is due by 5 p.m.