The US Supreme Court agreed to review Trump’s appeal in the Colorado case

, the Supreme Court of the United States yesterday agreed to hold a hearing on Donald Trump’s appeal in the case of his disqualification from participating in the primary elections in the state of Colorado.

Supreme Court The state of Colorado voted on December 19. Former US President Donald Trump cannot participate in the state’s primary ballot for the 2024 election due to his role in the attack by his supporters on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

This historic ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, which is likely to be approved by the US Supreme Court, makes Trump the first presidential candidate to Citing a constitutional provision that states that a person who has participated in a rebellion cannot hold public or federal office.

This verdict – which was approved by 4 votes and 3 dissenting votes were approved – according to the provisions of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, Donald Trump’s name cannot be on the ballot due to his role in the January 6, 2021 riot, and he cited this law as “competent to have federal responsibilities”. lost.

A lower court had previously ruled that Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the Capitol, amounted to rioting. but this court refused to disqualify him with the argument that paragraph 3 does not include presidents.

Trump, as the leading Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential election, submitted his request for a hearing to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The judges of the court announced that they will make the decision to hold this hearing quickly and therefore set the date of February 8 for oral arguments in this regard. Meanwhile, the primary election in the state of Colorado will be held on March 5. The Colorado petitioner will not take action to overturn Trump’s disqualification order in this state.

Voters and human rights groups have so far tried in more than 12 states. remove Trump from the election ballots, but at least 7 of these complaints have not been successful for various reasons.

Courts in Michigan, New Hampshire and Florida have dismissed similar lawsuits against Trump on procedural and jurisdictional grounds, and in some cases the courts have said that unilateral disqualification of candidates is not within their jurisdiction.

The state of Oregon is also one of the states that The Oregon Supreme Court is set to hear the case in the next few days to disqualify Trump from participating in the state’s primary ballot.

Trump and his allies used these disqualification orders They criticized it severely and called it an undemocratic act and a conspiracy by his political rivals to keep him away from the elections.

His lawyers stated that only Congress can implement Section 3 of this Article of the Constitution and the former President is not the subject of this disqualification. They emphasized that Trump on January 6, 2021, exercised his right to free speech in the First Amendment of the Constitution and that he had nothing to do with extremists The right has not played an important role in this attack.

Trump’s opponents hope that Trump’s victory will be denied to block his eligibility in states where there is always a tight race between the candidates of the two parties.

Of course, the final verdict of this court is not yet known, but most of the judges of this court are currently conservative and three of them are appointed Trump himself. Some of the judges of this court have long been critics of granting unconstitutional powers to courts.

Reuters writes that even if the Colorado court ruling is upheld by the Supreme Court, it will still affect the outcome of the 2024 primary election. It won’t be because Trump won’t need the vote of Colorado, which is traditionally a Democratic vote base, to win the election..

Of the 270 electoral votes that a candidate must win to win the election, Colorado has 9 votes. Electoral. In the 2020 election, Joe Biden won this state with a margin of 13% over Trump..

However, it is dangerous for Trump because states Others, whose votes Trump needs to win, may use Colorado as a model to oust him. Judges in other states will be closely watching the outcome of Colorado’s case against Trump. .

a few days ago also “ Maine Secretary of Internal Affairs Shena Bellows and the state’s highest election official announced last week that former US President Donald Trump cannot participate in the 2024 presidential primaries in this state.

The state of Maine in the northeastern United States, like Colorado The basis of this decision is the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Congress and Trump’s connection with it.

The order issued by the Secretary of the Interior in the state of Maine has not yet reached the implementation stage and is going through the legal process. The fate of this ruling will be determined by the Supreme Court of the United States, which means that unless the ruling is upheld by the Supreme Court, Trump’s name will not be on the Maine ballot. will be.

Trump three days ago regarding the forfeit He appealed his disqualification to participate in the Maine primary election.

In this petition, he asked the state Supreme Court to overturn this decision so that he can run in the state’s primary elections. which will be held on March 5, take part. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan Last week, it rejected a request to remove Trump’s name from the state’s Republican primary election, declaring that the petition could not be brought to court..

Currently, Donald Trump is the leading Republican candidate. He faces numerous criminal charges: attempting to overturn the 2020 election results and his supporters’ attack on the Capitol in January 2021, keeping classified documents at his private Florida villa after leaving the White House, paying hush money to an immoral movie actor, and trying to change the results of the election in the state of Georgia. He is also involved in fraud and financial charges. In addition, the former president of the United States is facing a case of paying damages to an author who accused him of sexual assault. Trump takes any action denied wrongdoing in these cases and has not been found guilty in any of these cases.

But Donald Trump made these accusations only with He knows the political motive and with the aim of removing him from the 2024 election competition, despite the fact that according to the results of the latest polls, Trump is still the leading candidate of the Republicans for the election of 2024. He claims that these accusations only made him lead in the polls. /span>

The US presidential election will be held in November 2024 Currently, Joe Biden is the leading candidate of the Democrats and Donald Trump is the leading candidate of the Republicans in the polls.