U.S. Supreme Court Will Let Colorado Secretary of State Participate in Oral Argument

On February 2, the U.S. Supreme Court said that the Colorado Secretary of State’s attorneys will be permitted to participate in oral argument in the Trump ballot access case. However, the court seems to be treating the Secretary of State as an ally of the Colorado objectors to Trump’s ballot position, because the Court has now allotted 40 minutes for Trump’s attorneys, 30 minutes for the objector’s attorneys, and 10 minutes for the Colorado Secretary of State.

Also on February 2, the Court denied the request of Professor Seth Barrett Tillman to participate in the oral argument.


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U.S. Supreme Court Will Let Colorado Secretary of State Participate in Oral Argument — 12 Comments

  1. Could the Supreme Court rule that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is inapplicable to current ballots because when ratified the states did not control who voters could put on their ballots?

  2. Question for lawyer for Colorado SOS:

    Is Donald Trump ineligible to be governor of North Dakota? What about a legislator in Oregon? A mayor of Chicago?

  3. Will the Congress immediately use its section 5 authority to enact legislation clarifying the scope of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to exclude its application to ballot access and foreclose its use by the states for partisan censorship of voters?
    Probably not, they want the SCOTUS to carry their load for them.
    And what can the SCOTUS say? They can say Section 3 is not applicable to ballot access UNTIL the Congress says it is.

  4. Can they rule the 14th amendment was improperly adopted, therefor it and everything that ever stemmed from it is immediately and forever irrevocably null and void?

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