Supreme Court, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday will take up a historic case that could decide whether Donald Trump is ineligible for the 2024 ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) The Supreme Court sounds ...
Jonathan Mitchell, a Texas-based attorney for Trump, laid out his case first. He repeatedly pointed to an 1869 case involving a criminal defendant named Caesar Griffin, believed to be the first major judicial opinion on Section 3. Chief Justice Salmon Chase, serving as the circuit judge ...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday began to hear former President Donald Trump's eligibility case, with the decision poised to set guidelines nationwide. Early January, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up whether Trump can be disqualified from appearing...
Trump’s case was the first at the Supreme Court dealing with a provision of the 14th Amendment that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office again. Colorado’s Supreme Court, in a first-of-its-kind ruling, ...
The arguments in the Trump Supreme Court case Trump's appeal pushes the Supreme Court into new territory, as it has never before ruled directly on the application of the 155-year-old clause. His lawyers are asking the justices to consider a number of issues, including whether the provision ...
But the update posted to the court’s website said “The Court will not take the Bench” on Monday for the expected opinion announcement, which comes at the end of the justices’ latest session. Last month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump’s appeal of a decision dis...
“We do. I think we have a chance at the Supreme Court,” he said. “First of all, (Former President Donald) Trump is going to have to convince the Supreme Court to take this case – and I can imagine a world in which the Supreme Court says this is pretty early on in ...
Kagan spoke at the Library of Congress hours after the Supreme Court heard arguments in the challenge to former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on Colorado’s ballot, though she was not speaking about that case specifically. Kagan has made similar arguments in the past, particularl...
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The Supreme Court last week said it would take up TikTok's appeal challenging the Act. It is scheduled to hear arguments in the case on Jan. 10.TikTok’s recent request to pause the U.S. ban was deemed as efforts to win time for Trump’s incoming administration to weigh in the ...