Former US President Donald Trump has requested the US Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado state Supreme Court ruling that removed him from the state’s 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist clause,” the new channel reported.
In the filing, Trump’s attorneys wrote, “In our system of ‘government of the people, by the people, [and] for the people,’ Colorado’s ruling is not and cannot be correct,” the new channel reported.
The Supreme Court is facing mounting pressure to decide whether Trump, the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, can be disqualified from holding public office. Meanwhile, the high court is involved in other matters that could affect the federal criminal case against Trump.
The former US President’s appeal comes nearly a week after the Colorado GOP, which is also a party in the case filed a separate appeal and two weeks later the Colorado ruling came down. The ruling has been put on hold while appeals play out and Colorado’s top election official has already made clear that Trump’s name will be included on the state’s primary ballot when it is certified on January 5.
