Thursday: SCOTUS To Hear Trump Ballot Arguments

The Associated Press reports:

On Thursday, the nation’s highest court is scheduled to hear arguments over whether Trump can remain on the ballot in Colorado, where the state’s Supreme Court ruled that he violated Section 3.

It’s the first time in history that the nation’s highest court has heard a case on Section 3, which was used to keep former Confederates from holding government offices after the amendment’s 1868 adoption. It fell into disuse after Congress granted an amnesty to most ex-rebels in 1872.

Before the violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, even many constitutional lawyers rarely thought about Section 3, a provision that isn’t taught at most law schools and hadn’t been used in court for more than 100 years.

Read the full article. The linked piece is quite the fascinating deep dive into Section 3 and its history.

Here’s how 2 sentences in the Constitution rose from obscurity to ensnare Donald Trump https://t.co/tsrOXcbz18

— The Associated Press (@AP) February 5, 2024