Will the Supreme Court Allow Colorado to Remove Trump From the Ballot?

On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding Colorado’s ruling that 2024 GOP frontrunner and former President Donald Trump is ineligible to run for public office.

For Context: In December, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which disqualifies candidates who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion.”

“Mixed Feelings”: A writer in the L.A. Times (Lean Left bias) expects the Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado decision, deeming the court will seek to avoid throwing “more fuel on the raging election-year American partisan political fire.” While expressing “mixed feelings” regarding the Colorado decision, the writer concluded, “Will the justices choose Trump, or the rule of law?”

“Constitutional Showdown”: An analysis in Roll Call (Center bias) explored one potential outcome of the court’s ruling. Trump’s legal team has argued that Section 3 only prohibits a candidate from holding office, not running for it. Should this argument prevail, and should Trump win in November, it would “risk a potential constitutional showdown for Congress on the day they count the electoral votes.”

“Usurp Democracy”: A writer in The Federalist (Right bias) outlined the “two well-funded leftist groups” behind the effort to remove Trump from the ballot, determining one of the groups, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, “does the legal bidding of the far left.” The writer concluded the true goal of the groups is to “dramatically alter the Supreme Court as we know it” and “usurp democracy.”