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WASHINGTON -- Former President Donald Trump could larn Monday whether the Supreme Court volition fto him look connected this year's ballot arsenic the starring Republican statesmanlike campaigner tries to adjacent successful connected his party's nomination.
The justices are expected to determine astatine slightest 1 lawsuit Monday, with signs powerfully pointing to a solution of the lawsuit from Colorado that threatens to footwear Trump disconnected immoderate authorities ballots due to the fact that of his efforts to overturn his predetermination nonaccomplishment successful 2020. Any opinions volition station connected the court's website opening conscionable aft 10 a.m. EST.
Trump is challenging a groundbreaking determination by the Colorado Supreme Court that said helium is disqualified from being president again and ineligible for the state's primary, which is Tuesday.
The solution of the lawsuit connected Monday, a time earlier Super Tuesday contests successful 16 states, would region uncertainty astir whether votes for Trump volition yet count. Both sides had requested accelerated enactment by the court, which heard arguments little than a period ago, connected Feb. 8.
The justices seemed poised past to regularisation successful Trump's favor.
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The Colorado tribunal was the archetypal to invoke a post-Civil War law proviso aimed astatine preventing those who "engaged successful insurrection" from holding office. Trump besides has since been barred from superior ballot successful Illinois and Maine, though some decisions, on with Colorado's, are connected clasp pending the result of the Supreme Court case.
The Supreme Court has until present ne'er ruled connected the provision, Section 3 of the 14th amendment.
The tribunal indicated Sunday determination volition beryllium astatine slightest 1 lawsuit decided Monday, adhering to its customized of not saying which one. But it besides departed from its accustomed signifier successful immoderate respects, heightening the anticipation that it's the Trump ballot lawsuit that volition beryllium handed down.
Except for erstwhile the extremity of the word approaches successful precocious June, the tribunal astir ever issues decisions connected days erstwhile the justices are scheduled to instrumentality the bench. But the adjacent scheduled tribunal time isn't until March 15. And isolated from during the coronavirus pandemic erstwhile the tribunal was closed, the justices astir ever work summaries of their opinions successful the courtroom. They won't beryllium determination Monday.
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Separately, the justices past week agreed to perceive arguments successful precocious April implicit whether Trump tin beryllium criminally prosecuted connected predetermination interference charges, including his relation successful the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol. The court's determination to measurement into the politically charged case, besides with small successful the mode of precedent to usher it, calls into question whether Trump volition basal proceedings earlier the November election.
The erstwhile president faces 91 transgression charges successful 4 prosecutions. Of those, the lone 1 with a proceedings day that seems connected way to clasp is his authorities lawsuit successful New York, wherever he's charged with falsifying concern records successful transportation with hush wealth payments to a porn actor. That lawsuit is acceptable for proceedings connected March 25, and the justice has signaled his determination to property ahead.
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