The justices will review a decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that said Trump could be barred from the Republican primary ballot in that state, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruling is likely to have national repercussions, potentially setting guidelines that would determine how every other state would handle the issue.
The brief order said the case would be argued on an accelerated schedule on Feb. 8, indicating that a ruling will follow soon after.
The Colorado case might be ruled to allow Trump’s name to be there, but the Maine case might let the state court’s decision stand if it were to come to the SCOTUS, the Secretary of State is doing things by the book following Maine election laws.
SCOTUS is irrelevant now for Colorado. Today was the deadline to certify primary ballots, and the state Supreme Court issued a stay to their ruling pending SCOTUS. Since they didn’t decline the case and haven’t made a ruling, his name is allowed on the ballot.
His name will be on the ballot, but if scotus finds that he’s ineligible he can’t win the nomination here, so vote for him would be wasted. Well, it’s wasted no matter what but you know what I mean.