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Former President Donald Trump’s appeal of a Colorado ruling barring him from the ballot may force the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in directly on his 2024 election prospects. That state was the first, followed by Maine, to rule that Trump was disqualified from seeking the Republican presidential nomination due to his actions ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Attorney Deepak Gupta, who has argued cases before the Supreme Court, said the justices will have to act with “unusual speed and, hopefully, in a way that does not further divide our deeply divided land.”
Efforts to keep Trump off the ballot are also underway in other states – including the highly competitive Michigan.
“The court either would be precluding Trump from being on the ballot or allowing him to remain,” Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California Berkeley Law School, said. “Either way, the court would be playing a huge role in the election.”
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