The US Supreme Court plans to issue at least one ruling today, the day before Colorado holds a presidential primary election in which a lower court kicked Republican frontrunner Donald Trump off the ballot for taking part in an insurrection during the January 6, 2021 US Capitol attack.
The Supreme Court, in an unusual Sunday update to its schedule, did not specify what ruling it would issue. But the justices on February 8 heard arguments in Trump’s appeal of the Colorado ruling and are due to issue their own decision.
Colorado is one of 15 states and a US territory holding primary elections on “Super Tuesday.” Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden in the November 5 US election.
The Republican Party of Colorado has asked the Supreme Court, whose 6-3 conservative majority include three justices appointed by Trump, to rule before tomorrow in the ballot eligibility case.
During arguments, Supreme Court justices signalled sympathy towards Trump’s appeal of a December 19 ruling by Colorado’s top court to disqualify him from the state’s ballot under the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
Anti-Trump forces have sought to disqualify him in more than two dozen other states – a mostly unsuccessful effort – over his actions relating to the January 6 attack.
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