The US Supreme Court is now confronting an election case of unparalleled weight that will determine Donald Trump’s prospects to regain the White House and influence public regard for an increasingly embattled court.
The new controversy from Colorado arrives as the nine justices face more scrutiny and the country is more polarized than in 2000, the last time the court was at the center of a presidential election battle, in the case of Bush v. Gore.
The justices’ handling of the fight over Trump’s disqualification from the Colorado ballot – the first moves of which might be made on Friday – could intensify the tumult surrounding them or, in the end, give them an opportunity to inspire confidence regarding the norms of democracy as the 2024 elections approach.
Chief Justice John Roberts and the eight other justices are set to meet in private on Friday morning to discuss a variety of pending cases. Soon after they could reveal how and when they would address the most compelling question before them: Whether the former president should be barred from holding future office because of his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol. That preliminary decision could come within hours Friday, or the justices may wait days. All parties involved have emphasized the urgency of the situation.
Trump’s legal filing this week was spiked with characteristic brashness and the continued denial of the last presidential election results that put Joe Biden in the White House. Trump’s lawyers told the Supreme Court, “In 2020, President Trump received more than 74 million votes nationally, and more than 1.3 million votes in Colorado alone, to be reelected as President of the United States.”
Trump also referred to protests in Portland, Oregon, in 2020, triggered by the murder of George Floyd and public concerns about racial justice, for…
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