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The Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on whether former President Donald Trump can be disqualified from Colorado‘s ballot over his actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Oral arguments have been scheduled in the coming weeks and the justices acknowledged the need for the case to be heard quickly, per AP. Arguments are set to be held in early February.
Last month, the Colorado Supreme Court booted the former president from the state’s 2024 ballot, ruling that he had engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
“A majority of the court holds that President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of the President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,” read the opinion. “Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.”
Maine was the second state in the U.S. to block Trump’s presidential bid and issued a similar decision, removing the former president from the 2024 primary ballot. Like the Colorado decision, Maine’s ruling is on hold while litigation unfolds and Trump remains on the ballot in both states.
On Friday, theSupreme Court madeanother bombshell decision and permitted Idaho to enforce its strict newabortion ban that would make it a crime for doctors to perform the procedurein emergency rooms. The ruling arrived as a legal battle over reproductive rights rages on in the state, and is the first time the high court weighed in on the states’s abortion ban since theoverturning of Roe v. Wade.
