Supreme Court to consider Trump's ballot eligibility
Newsy
The Supreme Court will listen to arguments in a case that will have major implications on the 2024 presidential election.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Thursday on whether state officials can ban former President Donald Trump from appearing on their election ballots.
Voters in numerous states challenged Trump's eligibility for the ballot, citing the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause. The amendment, which was ratified three years after the end of the Civil War, says that "officers" who "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the U.S. are disqualified from state or federal office.
Trump protested the results of the 2020 presidential election naming Joe Biden as the winner and held a rally moments before his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol during the counting of Electoral College votes, disrupting the proceedings.
Some of Trump's opponents claim that Trump's actions leading up to the insurrection at the Capitol would make him ineligible to serve as president under the 14th Amendment. In December, Colorado became the first state to ban Trump from the state's primary ballot.
Some states said they would wait for the Supreme Court ruling before deciding whether to allow Trump on their ballots.
