Trump threaten the Supreme Court of "chaos, bedlam" if he refuses to appear on the Colorado ballot.
Washington: Expecting ''chaos and bedlam,'' former President Donald Trump urged that the Supreme Court put an immediate and decisive stop to any measures to ban him from the race for the presidency.
He remarked that such acts "promise to unleash chaos and bedlam, as they try to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans."
In his main filing to the court prior to the oral arguments on February 8, Trump made this claim on the basis of his earlier request that the court reverse a shocking ruling from a Colorado court that might stop him from running for office there due to his actions related to the violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Whether or not Trump will be present at the arguments against the three judges he appointed to the court and the rest of the bench is still up in the air. Despite running for president in Iowa and New Hampshire, he has been appearing in civil cases for alleged business fraud and defamation in state and federal courts in New York.
The front-runner for the nomination, Donald Trump, has received support from the Republican National Committee, leaders of the GOP in Congress, attorneys general, secretaries of state, and other Republican officials nationwide through briefs they have filed.
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Last month, the Colorado Supreme Court decided that a 14th Amendment provision from the Reconstruction era, which was meant to prevent federal officials who sided with the Confederacy from regaining power in the reconstructed federal government, barred Trump from running for office a second time and, consequently, from appearing on the state's primary ballot.
Through submitted papers, the Republican National Committee, congressional GOP leaders, attorneys general, secretaries of state, and other Republican authorities across the country have endorsed front-runner Donald Trump.
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The Colorado Supreme Court ruled last month that Trump was ineligible to run for office again and, as a result, to appear in the state's primary due to a Reconstruction-era 14th Amendment provision that was intended to keep federal officials who sided with the Confederacy from regaining power in the reconstructed federal government.
“He exhorted them to fight to prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential election. He personally took action to try to stop the certification,” the majority wrote. “And for many hours, he and his supporters succeeded in halting that process.”
