All posts tagged "Colorado Supreme Court"

"Electoral chaos" will erupt if the Supreme Court does not allow former President Donald Trump to appear on Colorado's state ballot, Republican challengers reportedly argued this week.

Attorney Jay Sekulow — representing the Colorado Republican State Central Committee — filed a brief with the Supreme Court demanding the justices block attempts to bump Trump from state ballots under the 14th Amendment's insurrectionist ban, the Messenger reported Thursday.

The 19-page brief, which comes as Trump battles bans in both Colorado and Maine, calls such state-level autonomy "a recipe for electoral chaos perfectly illustrated by this case and by Maine’s recent decision to disqualify President Trump."...

Donald Trump’s much-anticipated appeal to Colorado’s decision to bump him from its ballot shocked a legal expert who professed himself stunned by its shoddiness, he said.

“The sort of gall that the brief represents, it's really, I think, shocking,” Andrew Weissmann told Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC Wednesday night. “It's really sort of beyond the pale and legally wrong.”

Weissmann, an MSNBC legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, slammed Trump’s attorneys arguments for both their arguments and their organization. ...

Former President Donald Trump amped up pressure on the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday when he finally appealed the Colorado decision bumping him from the state ballot, CNN legal correspondent Paula Reid said on Wednesday.

The Colorado Supreme Court's insurrectionist ban ruling remains on hold as the nation grapples with historic precedent and appeals from the state's Republican party, and now Trump himself, Reid noted.

"We need clarity for all 50 states in this country about this issue," said Reid. ...

Former President Donald Trump quietly fears the Supreme Court will back Colorado’s decision to bump him from the state's presidential ballot, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN Friday.

“He has also voiced some concern,” Haberman told Kaitlan Collins.

Specifically, Trump fears his “supermajority” — created with the appointments of Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch — will render verdicts against him to prove they are not influenced by him, Haberman said. ...

The group fighting to ban former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s 2024 ballot pushed their case forward Thursday with a new plea to the Supreme Court, records show.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a motion to expedite their 14th Amendment insurrectionist challenge after the state’s GOP appealed the Colorado Supreme Court ruling in their favor.

The watchdog group asked for oral arguments by January 19, 2024, the filing shows. ...

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold stopped counting the death threats she’s received from Donald Trump supporters as her state successfully challenged his right to be on its 2024 presidential ballot, she said Wednesday in a new report.

“I’ve received hundreds if not thousands of threats at this point,” Griswold told the Huffington Post. “I’m extremely concerned.”

Griswold made this admission after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled to block Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment ban on insurrectionists, a decision the former president has vowed to take to the Supreme Court. ...