The US Supreme Court could rule on Monday whether Trump can be removed from the polls

The United States Supreme Court announced this Sunday that it will publish at least one decision this Monday on the latest cases it heard, including that of the former president’s eligibility. Donald Trump (2017-2021) participate in the primary processes in which he was vetoed.

According to media outlets such as the New York Times, CNN or CBS News, There is a “strong sign” he will decide on the Republican’s eligibility for the Colorado primary electionstate that initially vetoed the former president.

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The Supreme Court today issued a statement informing that the decision will be published online from 10:00 local time (15:00 GMT) and that “the court will not take a position”.

The justices were not scheduled to return to court until March 15, notes the New York Times, so “the election calendar may have influenced” court proceedings.

In fact, the Colorado Republican Party asked the highest court to act before “Super Tuesday,” which is celebrated on March 5 and in which 15 states hold primary elections, including Colorado.

On February 8, Supreme Court justices held a hearing to determine whether Trump’s expulsion from the Colorado Republican primary for his role in the January 2021 attack on the Capitol is constitutional and whether Trump is therefore disqualified from returning to the House. White.

At the hearing, the judges were reticent about the implications that validating the state of Colorado’s decision to eliminate Trump could have at the national level for the November elections.

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.

Therefore, it is very likely that the judges will be in favor of not eliminating the president, the favorite for the Republican Party candidacy after having won all the primary elections ever held in several states.

In an unprecedented decision, the Colorado Court ruled in December that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution disqualifies the Republican from the “insurrection” of the assault on the Capitol, when a horde of Trumpists attacked Congress to try to prevent the ratification of Biden’s decree . victory.

Under the same argument, Maine election officials also kicked Trump out of the primary and last week Illinois did the same.

All of these decisions were appealed to the Supreme Court, whose decision in Colorado will likely serve to set a precedent in other similar cases.

This now famous Section establishes that no “member of Congress or officer of the United States” who has sworn an oath to the Constitution and “participated in insurrection or rebellion” may be “elected President or Vice President,” among other public offices.

It was approved in 1868, after the Civil War, with the aim of preventing Southern Confederate rebels who betrayed the Magna Carta from returning to power.

Source: Elcomercio

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