U.S. Supreme Court justices on Thursday appeared skeptical toward a judicial decision kicking former president Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado for participating in an insurrection during the 2021 Capitol attack in a case with major implications for the Nov. 5 election.
The nine justices were hearing Trump’s appeal of ruling by Colorado’s top court to disqualify him from the state’s Republican primary ballot under the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, finding that he participated in an insurrection.
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars from holding public office any “officer of the United States” who took an oath “to support the
