Trump Appeals Colorado DQ To SCOTUS

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletterDonald Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to consider his bid to stay on Colorado's primary ballot, taking the question over whether his conduct on Jan. 6 disqualifies him for office to the High Court.
50% : We are likewise mindful of our solemn duty to apply the law, without fear or favor, and without being swayed by public reaction to the decisions that the law mandates we reach."
48% : But the filing from Trump -- along with an earlier petition last week from the Colorado GOP -- all but assures that the Supreme Court will take a virtually untested question which goes to the core of American democracy.
39% : "The Colorado decision, made in a 4-3 vote, has already rippled through several other states considering whether to bar Trump from the ballot.
39% : Justices on the Colorado Supreme Court issued an automatic stay after disqualifying Trump, which included a provision that would stay the ruling as long as Trump appealed the decision before Jan. 4.
34% : Trump put forth several arguments in the petition which offer the Supreme Court a way to keep him on the ballot without wading into the incredibly consequential question of whether egging on a mob to disrupt the transfer of power constitutes an insurrection.
28% : "The High Court could, at this stage, make the unlikely decision to decline to hear the case, leaving Trump disqualified on the Colorado primary ballot and opening up the prospect of piecemeal disqualification in states across the country.
27% : Attorneys for the former president argued that only Congress could decide whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment applied to Trump, and also offered up the theory that the provision does not apply to presidents.
27% : Trump was the only president in U.S. history to reject the will of voters and use force to block it: Does that set of facts bar him from holding office?
17% : Attorneys for Trump have returned to the case over and over again in disqualification lawsuits because Chase, while riding circuit, ruled that Congress needed to act to enforce the Disqualification Clause.
14% : In the petition, Trump also said that he would want the Supreme Court to "reverse the Colorado Supreme Court's holding that President Trump 'engaged in insurrection.'
9% : In the petition, Trump repeatedly cited an obscure 1869 case involving then-Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon Chase which dealt with the Disqualification Clause and Congress.
9% : In Maine, the Secretary of State cited the Colorado decision in finding last week that Trump was disqualified; Trump sued to overturn that decision on Tuesday.

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