The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court may rule to keep former President Donald Trump’s name on the Colorado 2024 presidential primary ballot.
Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., told theGrio that he is not “surprised that the Supreme Court would support the former president’s position and not remove him from the ballot.”
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, told theGrio that she believes the justices may end up playing it safe.
“I think they’re going to be careful,” she said. “They may say that this issue isn’t ripe at the moment because he hasn’t been elected, in hopes of not having to resolve the issue,” she added.
On Thursday, Supreme Court justices, three of whom were appointed by the former president, heard hours-long oral arguments in the Donald Trump v. Norma Anderson case to decide whether removing Trump’s name from Colorado’s 2024 presidential primary ballot is a violation of the U.S. Constitution under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment states that no individual should “hold any office, civil or military…who, having previously taken an oath…as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion.
Jonathan Miller, chief program officer at Public Rights Project, told theGrio that the Constitution’s language is “very clear…if you try to overthrow the government and overturn an election you can’t run for office again.
“That is a mechanism for helping to preserve our democracy,” he said.
During oral arguments, justices on both sides of the political spectrum seemed to be more in favor of keeping Trump on the ballot.
While speaking with Trump’s attorneys, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stated that she could see how the presidency may not be included in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
“I mean I didn’t see any evidence that the presidency…
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