Colorado votes Tuesday. The Supreme Court hasn't said if votes for Trump will count.

Source: USA Today

Published 7:33 a.m. ET Mar. 2, 2024 | Updated 6:25 p.m. ET Mar. 2, 2024


WASHINGTON ? No Supreme Court justice seemed eager last month to kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot when they heard Trump’s challenge to the decision in Colorado that he can’t be a candidate.

Their apparent agreement on a highly charged political issue that could have divided the justices along ideological lines suggested a speedy decision on a case that had already been expedited.

But Colorado holds its primary Tuesday, and the court has stayed silent. Voters are also going to the polls in Maine, another state where Trump’s ballot eligibility is waiting for a ruling from the high court.

And in Illinois, which votes March 19, a judge last Wednesday relied on the same anti-insurrectionist section of the Constitution used by Colorado to declare that Trump cannot be a candidate – a decision the judge immediately put on hold until the Supreme Court acts.

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