The US Supreme Court’s attempt to rule against Trump before Holy Tuesday

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, The Supreme Court of America is considering a day before voting in The Republican party in Colorado should issue at least an order of impeachment against Trump in order to prevent him from appearing in the primaries of this state.

According to this report, the court The U.S. Supreme Court plans to issue a ruling against Trump today, while tomorrow, March 5, is Big Tuesday and Republican primary elections will be held in 15 states, including Colorado and one U.S. territory.

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on December 19, 2023 that former US President Donald Trump cannot stand trial for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by his supporters. participate in the primary voting of this state for the 2024 election.

This verdict – which was approved by 4 votes in favor and 3 votes against – according to the provisions of Article 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, Donald Trump’s name cannot be used in the January 6, 2021 riot due to his role in it. be placed on the ballot and he has lost his “competence to hold federal responsibilities” by citing this law.

According to this report, the Supreme Court upheld the verdict will not announce, but the judges will hold a hearing on February 8 on Trump’s appeal against the Colorado court’s decision and plan to announce their decision today.

Colorado Republicans asked the Supreme Court to issue its ruling before Holy Tuesday.

A few days ago, a judge in The state of Illinois has removed the name of former US President Donald Trump from the ballots in the primary stage of the country’s presidential election on the basis that he called his supporters to riot on January 6, 2021.

This decision will not be enforced for now, and Donald Trump will have a short period of time to refer it to the US Supreme Court and request an appeal. The unexpected decision of this court was taken in a situation where a similar decision from the state of Colorado has been submitted to the Supreme Court for decision.

Argument of the Illinois court judge It is largely based on the arguments of the Colorado court, and the Illinois judge described the evidence presented by the Colorado court as “compelling” and based on that, he decided to disqualify Donald Trump.

The state of Illinois is now the third state that has taken steps to disqualify Trump. The other two states are Colorado and Maine. Any decision in this regard in these states is on hold until the Supreme Court hears Trump’s appeal for Colorado.

The states that want Trump’s name not to be placed on the ballots say that his actions on January 6, 2021 were an example of inciting riots and riots. On that day, when American lawmakers were in Congress to confirm the results of the 2020 presidential election, a group of Donald Trump supporters attacked Capitol Hill at his instigation.

Fans Trump’s disqualification based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution says that he will not be allowed to accept federal positions. In this section of the law, which was passed during the American Civil War, it is stated that those who take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States will not have the right to hold federal office if they “incite sedition or insurrection”. span style=”color:black”>.

Trump and his allies have strongly criticized these impeachment orders and called it an undemocratic act and a conspiracy by his political rivals for They called keeping 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 This is not the issue of disqualification. They emphasized that on January 6, 2021, Trump used the right to freedom of speech in the First Amendment of the Constitution and that he had no connection with the right-wing extremists who played an important role in this attack.

Trump’s opponents hope to block Trump’s victory by disqualifying him in states where there is always a tight race between candidates of both parties.

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

Reuters news agency wrote that even if the ruling of the Colorado court is upheld by the Supreme Court, It will not affect the outcome of the 2024 primary election because Trump will not need the vote of Colorado, which is traditionally a Democratic base, to win the election.

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

However, the issue is dangerous for Trump because other states that Trump needs their votes to win, they may use the state of Colorado as their model to oust him. Judges in other states will carefully monitor the outcome of the case Colorado has initiated against Trump.

While Trump has so far won the primary elections in the states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, Virgin Islands and South Carolina, Michigan, Missouri and Idaho with significant margins.

If Trump is re-elected president, he can seek a pardon for any federal charges against him.

US presidential election on November 5, 2024 will be held. Currently, Joe Biden is the leading candidate of the Democrats and Donald Trump is the leading candidate of the Republicans in the polls.

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