In February, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether Donald Trump should be disqualified from running for office by storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The Supreme Court announced this on Friday.
The Supreme Court will consider a Colorado Supreme Court ruling barring Trump from participating in the Republican primaries. On Wednesday, Trump appealed the Colorado decision to the US Supreme Court.
The US Supreme Court moved unusually quickly to take up the case. The case will be heard in February.
The court faces a decision crucial to the conduct of this year’s US presidential election. The US Supreme Court ruling applies to all fifty states. On the Supreme Court, conservative justices have a six-to-three majority.
The high court in Colorado held that the exclusion was justified because of Trump’s alleged involvement in the capital storm. The U.S. Constitution has a provision that prohibits people who engage in rebellion from serving in government.
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