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NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 03:04
The US Federal Supreme Court will next month consider the question of whether former President Donald Trump can participate in the presidential elections this November. Last month, the Supreme Court of the state of Colorado ruled that Trump must be banned from the voting list due to his role in the Capitol storming in January 2021. In the state of Maine, Trump is now also no longer allowed to be on the ballot.
Trump appealed Colorado’s ruling to the federal court, which will now intervene in the case. The first hearing will take place on February 8 and the court’s decision will then apply to the entire country.
The case is likely to be heard at a rapid pace, even before the important primaries in several states. In many states, people will go to the polls on March 5 during ‘Super Tuesday’. It appears that the court wants to make a ruling before then.
In Colorado, Trump was banned from the ballot on the basis of an old constitutional article from the period just after the American Civil War. That article, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, states that people holding political office must not have participated in an insurrection or rebellion.
Trump’s defense says the article does not apply to presidents, and that Trump did not participate in an insurrection. The federal court will have to decide how that article should be interpreted.
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