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Among the tangle of legal proceedings faced donald trump, the attack on the Capitol in 2021 is the only one that could have consequences for his candidacy for the White House. Therefore, attention turned this Thursday to the Supreme Court of the United States, which began to debate whether the former president should be banned from running in the November elections for the White House, in which he is the clear favorite for get the appointment. .of the Republican Party.
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The nine judges at the highest court in the US heard arguments for more than 90 minutes to determine whether Trump’s expulsion from the Republican primaries in the state of Colorado is constitutional.
In the background of the case is the role that Trump adopted after his defeat in the 2020 elections, which culminated in the assault on the Capitol, in Washington, on January 6, 2021.
Trump reacted this Thursday by stating that “there is no case” against him that disqualifies him and that it is “electoral interference by Democrats”. Despite the confidence he shows in doing well, the case raises several questions related to the electoral period.
In an unprecedented decision, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump incited the insurrection and is therefore disqualified from running again for president. Therefore, he should not appear on the March 5 state primary election ballots, according to the ruling.
This Thursday, the Supreme Court began hearing former President Donald’s appeal to be allowed to run as a presidential candidate in November.
Chief Justice John Roberts predicted that a ruling in Colorado could lead to nationwide attempts to disqualify candidates.
The lawyer representing voters who questioned Trump’s eligibility, Jason Murray, denied that Colorado will interfere at the national level, since “ultimately, it is this court (the Supreme Court) that will decide” and “resolve the issue for the nation.” .”
While the question of whether there was an insurrection on January 6 was not the focus of the hearing, Murray insisted that the attack on the Capitol “was incited by a sitting president” who participated “in an insurrection,” so he is affected by the Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, focus of the debate.
In turn, Trump’s lawyer, Jonathan Mitchell, stated that an insurrection requires “an organized and concerted effort to overthrow the government through violence” and that this did not occur. “It was not an insurrection,” the former president insisted this Thursday.
Under the same argument, Maine election officials also expelled Trump from the primary. Additionally, several activists and organizations have filed similar lawsuits in at least 11 states and are awaiting the Supreme Court’s ruling.
This is the first time that Article 3 of the 14th Constitutional Amendment has been applied to a presidential candidate. In fact, this section was passed in 1868, after the Civil War, with the aim of preventing southern Confederate rebels who betrayed the Magna Carta from returning to power.
The justices of the Supreme Court, which has a conservative majority and includes three justices appointed by Trump, were skeptical of efforts to exclude the former Republican president from electoral scrutiny.
Both the more progressive and more conservative justices suggested in their speeches discomfort with the idea of individual states interpreting a candidate’s constitutional eligibility for national office.
“It will all depend on a handful of states that decide the presidential elections” and this is “a pretty disheartening consequence,” Roberts said.
Eight of the nine justices suggested they were open to at least some of the arguments raised by Trump’s lawyer.
The Supreme Court will have to make a decision soon due to the tight electoral calendar. However, experts consider it unlikely that there will be a decision before Super Tuesday on March 5, when 15 states, including Colorado, will hold their primaries.
The Supreme Court’s decision could change the presidential elections in which the tycoon is the big favorite to win the Republican nomination and return to fight with President Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate.
Source: Elcomercio
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