Donald Trump's legal team as early as Tuesday could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court the Colorado Supreme Court decision barring him from the GOP primary ballot.
if they can justify handing him the win they’ll take it up immediately and do what they’re paid to do. if they can’t justify handing him the win, they’ll stall indefinitely and hope that he either wins the election and pardons himself or his next coup attempt succeeds.
This is about the primary election ballots. There is no stall indefinitely. The only options available to SCOTUS are to take it up on a highly expediated basis or dismiss it as moot.
they can absolutely stall on this and concede Colorado and Maine without either declaring the president to be above the law or giving other states the legal impetus to kick him off their ballots too. Right now he’s polling so far ahead that he can give up two states without endangering the nomination. If the court sees no choice except to either ignore the case or get him kicked off in every state, they’ll ignore it.
I was wrong originally about the scope of this though, and thank you for your correction there.
if they can justify handing him the win they’ll take it up immediately and do what they’re paid to do. if they can’t justify handing him the win, they’ll stall indefinitely and hope that he either wins the election and pardons himself or his next coup attempt succeeds.
This is about the primary election ballots. There is no stall indefinitely. The only options available to SCOTUS are to take it up on a highly expediated basis or dismiss it as moot.
they can absolutely stall on this and concede Colorado and Maine without either declaring the president to be above the law or giving other states the legal impetus to kick him off their ballots too. Right now he’s polling so far ahead that he can give up two states without endangering the nomination. If the court sees no choice except to either ignore the case or get him kicked off in every state, they’ll ignore it.
I was wrong originally about the scope of this though, and thank you for your correction there.