Two and a half hours of oral arguments in the Supreme Court left no doubt as to the result: Donald Trump can run for president of the United States. Sometimes it is hard to predict the outcome in a case based on the oral argument, but none of the conservative justices left any doubt that […]
Tag: Insurrectionist
‘Oath-breaking insurrectionist’ Trump is ineligible for office, Colorado voters tell the Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Colorado voters who say former President Donald Trump should be barred from holding federal office because of his role in the events leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol urged the Supreme Court on Friday to kick him off their state’s Republican primary ballot. Trump “intentionally organized and incited a […]
Trump defends himself to the Supreme Court, saying he called ‘for peace, patriotism, respect for law and order’ on Jan. 6 and is not an insurrectionist
Filing late in the day to meet the Jan. 18, 2024, deadline, former President Donald Trump submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that asked the justices to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove him from that state’s primary ballot. Norma Anderson, a Republican and former Colorado state lawmaker, and several other […]
Michigan Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot; rejects insurrectionist argument
LANSING — The Michigan Supreme Court has declined to hear a case arguing former President Donald Trump should be excluded from the state’s primary ballot, meaning the Republican frontrunner for the GOP nomination will remain a listed candidate. Former President Donald Trump The order issued Wednesday is in line with lower court rulings in Michigan, […]
Trump says he’s ‘not an insurrectionist’ after Colorado high court removes him from ballot
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s “not an insurrectionist” in an apparent response to the Colorado Supreme Court‘s decision to remove him from the state’s 2024 primary election ballot, which President Joe Biden and others have commented on. “I’m not an Insurrectionist (“PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY”), Crooked Joe Biden is!!!” Trump wrote […]
Biden says it’s ‘self-evident’ that Trump is an insurrectionist
Joe Biden has said it is “self-evident” that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist in his first public comments since Colorado’s supreme court removed the former president from the state’s 2024 ballot. The president was speaking before boarding Air Force One to an afternoon engagement in Milwaukee, and said he would not comment on the legal […]
What Happened When the U.S. Failed to Prosecute an Insurrectionist Ex-President
A new trial date was set, for November 25th. No one expected the prosecution to be ready. Two years after Davis’s arrest, Chandler had still not conducted any investigation, or prepared a superseding indictment. Underwood told Speed that he believed Chandler was a Confederate sympathizer who was making money by selling pardons. But it may […]