Donald Trump's legal team as early as Tuesday could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court the Colorado Supreme Court decision barring him from the GOP primary ballot.
Those other ones were initially federal cases, so they have their hierarchy of court systems to go through. Colorado and Maine cases were state cases to start. I’m not 100% sure about this, but I believe that if it were to go into the federal system, it would go straight to SCOTUS.
if they can justify handing him the win they’ll take it up immediately and do what they’re paid to do. if they can’t justify handing him the win, they’ll stall indefinitely and hope that he either wins the election and pardons himself or his next coup attempt succeeds.
This is about the primary election ballots. There is no stall indefinitely. The only options available to SCOTUS are to take it up on a highly expediated basis or dismiss it as moot.
they can absolutely stall on this and concede Colorado and Maine without either declaring the president to be above the law or giving other states the legal impetus to kick him off their ballots too. Right now he’s polling so far ahead that he can give up two states without endangering the nomination. If the court sees no choice except to either ignore the case or get him kicked off in every state, they’ll ignore it.
I was wrong originally about the scope of this though, and thank you for your correction there.
Will be interesting to see how quickly this makes it to the US Supreme Court considering they have been in no hurry to take up other Trump cases.
Those other ones were initially federal cases, so they have their hierarchy of court systems to go through. Colorado and Maine cases were state cases to start. I’m not 100% sure about this, but I believe that if it were to go into the federal system, it would go straight to SCOTUS.
if they can justify handing him the win they’ll take it up immediately and do what they’re paid to do. if they can’t justify handing him the win, they’ll stall indefinitely and hope that he either wins the election and pardons himself or his next coup attempt succeeds.
This is about the primary election ballots. There is no stall indefinitely. The only options available to SCOTUS are to take it up on a highly expediated basis or dismiss it as moot.
they can absolutely stall on this and concede Colorado and Maine without either declaring the president to be above the law or giving other states the legal impetus to kick him off their ballots too. Right now he’s polling so far ahead that he can give up two states without endangering the nomination. If the court sees no choice except to either ignore the case or get him kicked off in every state, they’ll ignore it.
I was wrong originally about the scope of this though, and thank you for your correction there.