Trump's fate as a candidate rests in the hands of nine Supreme Court justices.
Luke Broadwater, Congressional Reporter at The New York Times, believes states are going to fall in line should the high court subscribe to the 4 to 3 ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court to disqualify the 45th president from appearing on the 2024 presidential primary ballot for his actions from Jan. 6, 2021, where it's alleged he incited a riot when a his supporters laid siege on the U.S. Capital to halt the certification of the election results.
"This is such an important decision for the Supreme Court to make, because if by some chance they decide that Colorado has made the right decision — then you're going to see state after state where Donald Trump is kicked off the ballot and simply cannot become the next president, or has no shot at becoming the next president of the United States," he said during an appearance on CNN's "Laura Coates Live."
The ruling was made based on the interpretation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, a Civil War-era law to prevent Confederacy sympathizers from holding office.
The Colorado justices believed that indeed the law prevents Trump, who remains the leading Republican presidential nominee in 2024, from appearing on the ballot based on the suspicion that he played a central role on the "Stop The Steal" rally that exploded into a riot.
Broadwater spoke to how interconnected Trump's federal criminal election subversion case is to the decision that likely will be heard before the Supreme Court.
"In some ways these cases are related, right, because if Trump is convicted in the Jan. 6th prosecution, that only strengthens the argument that he should be removed from the ballot under the 14th Amendment."
He pointed to precedent.
Back in September 2022, then-Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin, who founded "Cowboys for Trump" was ordered to be removed from office for his participation in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capital following the state supreme court's decision that cited Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
However, unlike Trump, Griffin had been convicted of trespassing on Capitol grounds and determined to have engaged in "insurrection or rebellion."
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