On Thursday, Trump’s lawyers appeared at the US Supreme Court for arguments over a decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to throw Trump off the state’s ballot under the 14th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists holding public office. Trump currently doesn’t plan to be there. Instead, he’ll be at Mar-a-Lago in Florida before traveling to a Nevada caucus victory party in Las Vegas.
This comes after Trump appealed the state’s Supreme Court ruling in December 2023, which disqualified him from the state ballot. At issue is whether Trump committed “Insurrection” by inciting a crowd to storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021 and whether that would make him constitutionally ineligible to be re-elected president.
“There is no upside to him attending these arguments,” one source close to the legal team tells CNN. “Trump understands how serious this is – the stakes could not be higher.”
Trump’s decision not to attend the historic Supreme Court arguments in the case – which would determine his ballot eligibility nationwide – is an indication of how carefully his team is handling the case before the court where Trump appointed one-third of the justices on the bench to create a conservative supermajority.
The 2024 Colorado primary results are expected to be announced on March 5th, 2024.
