Democrat-Appointed Justices Skeptical in Trump Ballot Case

Published on February 9, 2024

At least two of the Democrat-appointed Supreme Court justices signaled during Thursday’s hearing that they are open to siding with former President Donald Trump’s attorneys to reject a Colorado decision barring the former president from the ballot in that state. During the two-hour oral arguments session, Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the court’s Republican-appointed justices in voicing skepticism about a state’s ability to disqualify under the 14th Amendment’s Section 3. “I think that the question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the United States,” Justice Kagan told attorney Jason Murray, who represents several Colorado voters who brought the challenge. “What’s a state doing deciding who other citizens get to vote for for president?”...

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