Trump’s lawyers urged the justices to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court ruling last month that concluded he should be barred from the ballot there under the 14th Amendment.
Donald Trump laid out his legal arguments at the Supreme Court for why he should remain on the 2024 ballot, urging the court to “put a swift and decisive end” to lawsuits that say he is ineligible to serve as president because of his efforts to cling to power after he lost the 2020 election.
The challenges to his eligibility “threaten to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans” and “promise to unleash chaos and bedlam” around the nation if they proceed, Trump’s lawyers wrote in a legal brief submitted Thursday evening.
Trump’s lawyers urged the justices to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court ruling last month that concluded he should be barred from the ballot there under the 14th Amendment, which prohibits people from serving in public office if they engaged in insurrection after taking an oath to support the Constitution.
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case on Feb. 8.
Trump’s legal arguments in the 59-page brief are familiar — they largely echo the arguments he has made in lower courts and previewed in earlier filings at the Supreme Court. But the brief is his formal presentation of his case to the justices in advance of what will be a historic showdown at the high court in three weeks.
In the brief, Trump denied that the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol amounted to an insurrection, and he denied that his actions leading up to that day sparked the riot at all.
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