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233 entries in 'Legal News Highlight' |
2024/04/22
Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside
2024/03/15
Court upholds mandatory prison terms for some low-level drug dealers
2024/03/01
Supreme Court casts doubt on GOP-led states’ efforts to regulate social media
2024/02/02
UN court rejects most of Ukraine’s terror financing case against Russia
2024/01/05
Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ruling
2023/12/26
Britain cracks down on protests in threat to democratic norms
2023/10/30
Court strikes down new law giving participants right to change venue
2023/06/28
Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient’s family
2023/06/26
Yale student who reported rape can be sued for defamation
2023/06/06
Court upholds judge’s finding that Tesla acquisition of Solar City was fair
2023/01/06
South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down state abortion ban
2022/11/03
Indiana Democrats pin legislative gains on abortion debate
2022/08/26
Lobster fishing union drops lawsuit about new whale closure
2021/08/27
Maryland’s highest court reviewing teen sniper’s life term
2021/08/18
Announcing the Launch of NY Immigration Law Firm
2021/05/02
Judges hear arguments over Census’ contentious privacy tool
2021/04/28
Slain girl’s grandmother wants caseworkers deemed ‘reckless’
2021/03/04
State ordered to submit plan for mental health services
2021/01/21
Justice: Technology helped Nebraska courts face pandemic
2021/01/11
Louisiana Supreme Court has a new chief justice, John Weimer
2020/09/24
Lawyer: Case of Black inmate set to die reveals racial bias
2020/08/01
Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence
2020/07/20
Ohio court to hear arguments in appeal over judge shot video
2020/07/15
Apple wins big EU court case over $15 billion in taxes
2020/06/03
Wisconsin Supreme Court agrees to hear voter purge case
2020/01/22
Bangladesh court orders 231 factories closed to save river
2019/12/22
Court: Airline’s workers can’t sue as class in pay dispute
2019/04/07
South Korean court orders easing of decades-old abortion ban
2019/02/22
Court upholds car rental tax imposed in Maricopa County
2019/02/16
Wisconsin court: Judge's Facebook friendship could show bias
2019/01/19
Lawyer: Incapacitated woman who gave birth not in coma
2019/01/03
Appeals court sides with Trump in transgender military case
2018/12/21
Human rights court rules against Greece in Sharia law case
2018/12/12
Thai court extends detention of refugee sought by Bahrain
2018/10/27
Bomb suspect set for Florida court appearance
2018/09/29
UN court asked to probe Venezuela; leader defiant in speech
2018/08/12
Court, regulators clash over uranium project in South Dakota
2018/08/05
Oklahoma lawsuit against opioid makers back in state court
2018/07/05
1-year-old goes to court to get reunited with family
2018/06/08
Swedish court: Ghana international to be jailed, deported
2018/06/06
Congressional Dems take Trump to court over foreign favors
2018/03/19
Courts weighing numerous challenges to political boundaries
2018/03/04
Court rules in favor of fired transgender funeral director
2018/03/02
Organized labor case goes in front of Supreme Court
2018/02/20
Maldives court delays reinstating pro-opposition lawmakers
2018/01/12
Warrant dropped for professor who spoke Hawaiian in court
2017/11/14
Feds head to court to seek dismissal of Twin Metals lawsuit
2017/11/11
Trump choosing white men as judges, highest rate in decades
2017/10/30
Illinois to require veterans courts across the state in 2018
2017/10/28
Court asked to decide whether to limit electronics searches
2017/10/25
Ohio court won't hear case in seizure of exotic animals
2017/10/22
Court weighing whether graffiti mecca was protected by law
2017/09/30
Supreme Court refuses to hear Kentucky foster care case
2017/07/12
Hearing In San Diego Unified Suit Against The College Board
2017/05/06
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman returns to court in drug case
2017/05/01
Supreme Court says cities can sue banks under anti-bias law
2017/04/20
Supreme Court bans Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia
2017/04/05
Baldwin's Supreme Court nominee fight is early flashpoint
2017/01/20
Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions
2016/12/07
UK Supreme Court hears landmark challenge to Brexit plans
2016/11/20
French court restores far-right candidate's ties to father
2016/09/24
Court gives fertilizer dealers a reprieve from policy change
2016/09/24
Court asks judges to respond to Louisiana sheriff's claims
2016/08/11
Court again says New Jersey can't legalize sports betting
2016/08/11
Egyptian lawyer, journalist released after prison sentence
2016/07/22
Arkansas court denies request for new execution law hearing
2016/06/25
Senate confirms district court judge for New Jersey
2016/03/29
Supreme Court's future hangs in the balance in 2016
2016/03/23
Ole Miss ex-student pleads guilty to tying noose on statue
2016/01/20
Florida asks court to deny inmate's execution-delay request
2015/11/19
Rick Perry indictment goes before Texas' top criminal court
2015/11/01
High court rejects ex-stockbroker's appeal in fraud case
2015/07/14
Court: New health law doesn't infringe on religious freedom
2014/12/04
Egyptian court sentences 188 people to death
2014/11/18
Gay marriage issue squarely before high court
2014/11/11
Kansas watches high court justice on gay marriage
2014/10/20
Appeals court reinstates Texas voter ID law
2014/08/29
Top India court says coal allocations were illegal
2014/06/25
Court rejects appeal of gay jury selection case
2014/04/17
Oklahoma gay-marriage case before US appeals court
2014/04/15
SC Supreme Court hears appeal in fatal dog attack
2014/04/08
Lawmaker Yee due back in court for arraignment
2014/03/17
Court: Tenn. Must Recognize 3 Same-Sex Marriages
2014/03/14
French court blocks secret recordings of Sarkozy
2014/02/24
Moscow court sends 7 to prison for protest rally
2013/11/25
Wind energy firm pleads guilty to eagle deaths
2012/02/27
BP 'ready for long court battle over Gulf spill'
2012/02/24
Costner sculpture dispute heads to SD high court
2012/02/23
Court seems split on double jeopardy question
2012/02/02
Providence mayor warns of possible bankruptcy
2012/01/30
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP Files Class Action
2012/01/26
Hustler targeted for printing photos of dead woman
2012/01/25
In Vt., an attorney general's losses raise doubts
2012/01/18
Amazon Hit With Class Action Over Zappos Data Breach
2012/01/01
MT court restores corporate campaign spending ban
2011/12/31
Del. court says ex-HP CEO can't keep letter secret
2011/12/30
Appeals court upholds sentence of former deputy
2011/12/19
Operative gets prison for bilking NYC mayor
2011/12/19
Court schedules week of health care arguments
2011/12/11
Appeals court allows Albany hospital merger
2011/12/02
Farmers Insurance Settles Class Action Lawsuit
2011/11/21
Accused White House shooter to appear in DC court
2011/11/17
NY federal appeals court reverses Bruno conviction
2011/11/15
Justices unlikely to have last word on health care
2011/11/11
Govt asks justices to stay out of immigration case
2011/11/09
Calif high court hears debate over worker breaks
2011/11/03
Police investigate Texas judge over video beating
2011/10/24
Baker Donelson law firm acquires Houston practice
2011/10/24
Federman & Sherwood Announces Class Action Lawsuit
2011/10/20
Senate rejects GOP effort on terrorist trials
2011/10/18
Top Europe court bans stem cell technique patents
2011/10/15
Court mulls trial in absentia for Hariri case
2011/10/11
FDIC backs ban on banks trading for own profit
2011/10/11
Kentucky man sues Facebook over tracking cookie
2011/10/05
European court rules against Soros in trading case
2011/10/03
High court appears to favor Ala. death row inmate
2011/10/03
Court refuses to hear Maryland gun case
2011/09/20
Idaho inmates settle lawsuit over prison violence
2011/09/06
Ex-Va attorney convicted in law firm embezzlement
2011/08/30
Court approves Harry and David reorganization plan
2011/08/30
BofA sued over $1.75 billion mortgage trust
2011/08/26
No choking charges for Wis. Supreme Court justice
2011/08/19
Former U.S. attorney Lampton dies at 60
2011/08/15
Tech blogger won't be charged in Apple iPhone case
2011/08/15
White House criticizes court's health care ruling
2011/08/10
Ariz. governor on deadline for immigration appeal
2011/08/01
Court upholds Chinese journalist's jail sentence
2011/07/26
Calif Supreme Court rules on illegal local taxes
2011/07/05
Bill revision could mean money for NJ drug company
2011/07/04
Mich. man sues, wants Chevron stock at '04 price
2011/07/03
Law school enrollment in Missouri lags as legal jobs dry up
2011/06/24
N.Y. governor signs gay marriage into law
2011/06/13
Court won't hear restitution claim in Ponzi case
2011/06/10
Toyota class action suit to start with Utah case
2011/06/07
Court: No shield law for message boards posters
2011/06/02
NJ mom accused of starving child pleads not guilty
2011/05/29
Court: Sex-offender list is not cruel punishment
2011/05/23
Not guilty plea entered for teen in NJ webcam case
2011/05/18
Ala. chief justice warns more court layoffs coming
2011/05/10
Court in Va. to hear US health care law challenges
2011/05/10
Pa. lawmaker faces hearing on gun-related charge
2011/05/09
Judge dismisses EA from NCAA antitrust lawsuit
2011/05/06
Court puts Carl Lewis back on NJ primary ballot
2011/05/03
NH Senate rejects changes to anti-bullying law
2011/05/02
Firm hired by GOP ends work on gay marriage ban
2011/05/02
Bachmann uses Holocaust to illustrate tax point
2011/05/02
Court sides with Wyoming in dispute with Montana
2011/04/28
Kan. House debates forcing lawsuit over casino
2011/04/28
US envoy says rights talks with China yield little
2011/04/06
2 charged with insider trading involving law firms
2011/02/23
Court turns down campaign disclosure challenge
2011/01/31
Reno court accepts deal for model in arch crash
2011/01/18
High court denies man's gun arrest appeal
2010/12/30
Mich. court ruling would nix water discharge plan
2010/11/28
Judge denies class action in cigarette lawsuits
2010/11/28
Ruling on Wal-Mart class-action case may have broader impact
2010/11/28
Conn. high court to hear immigrant benefits case
2010/11/27
Supreme Court: drugs can be forced on defendant
2010/11/02
WA voters say no to state income tax Initiative 1098
2010/10/07
Genzyme board rejects Sanofi $69-a-share offer
2010/08/03
Murder conviction of mom reversed in California
2010/07/12
Judicial Vacancies Slow the Wheels of Justice
2010/02/25
Law firm probes Skipton ceiling contract clause
2010/02/16
Montgomery law firm files suit against Toyota
2010/02/12
The money question: At many law firms, these prices are in-SANE!
2010/02/08
Private equity firms brace for tax battle
2010/01/31
First class-action lawsuit filed against Toyota
2009/12/28
Judge names Houston attorney to monitor company
2009/12/18
Ky. League of Cities audit goes to law enforcement
2009/10/26
NH judge refuses to dismiss poetry program lawsuit
2009/04/27
Judge waives waiting period for gay Iowa couple
2009/04/24
Judge in LA orders green card cases reopened
2009/04/21
US Supreme Court to rule on animal cruelty law
2009/02/26
Christian Boot Camp Accused of Abusing Kids
2009/02/20
Microsoft Dodges Class Action For Now
2009/01/26
FBI: Long Island investment firm boss surrenders
2009/01/05
Grocery Wholesaler in Federal Antitrust Action
2008/12/24
Court reinstates clean air rule during EPA fix
2008/11/23
Singapore rules Journal in contempt of court
2008/11/13
High court to rule when judges must bow out
2008/11/05
Court: Payday lending law violated constitution
2008/10/30
Alinghi, rivals call on BMW Oracle to drop lawsuit
2008/10/28
Hot-button social issues highlight state ballots
2008/08/28
Attorney Need Not Deliver Subpoenaed Transcript
2008/08/27
Citibank Stole From 53,000 Customers
2008/08/22
Court says Guantanamo documents should be released
2008/08/21
Urban League Challenges Illinois School Funding
2008/08/13
Steve Wynn Sues Soft-Core Porn King
2008/08/12
DuPont Loses Bid to Enforce Supply Contract
2008/08/11
DC Circuit dismisses Fannie Mae shareholder suit
2008/08/08
Texas executes second foreign national since ICJ order
2008/08/06
Female Football Player Claims Discrimination
2008/07/09
Anheuser-Bush Invokes Cuban Embargo To Fight Buyout
2008/07/08
Refco CEO Bennett Gets 16 Years
2008/07/03
DC police launch voluntary handgun search program
2008/06/20
Federal court issues stay in SC execution
2008/06/09
FTC Appeals D.C. Circuit Order In Rambus Case
2008/06/02
Hungarian Gypsies Lose Bid For Asylum In U.S.
2008/05/28
Harry Potter & The Librarian's Lawsuit
2008/05/07
Monopoly Alleged In Crane Certification
2008/05/06
Texas Judge Sets Execution for Mexican National
2008/05/02
Illegal Imimrants Sue Employer, Employer Sues Back
2008/04/23
Officers Denied Immunity For Arresting Protester
2008/04/22
Federal judge dismisses Katrina fraud claim
2008/04/10
Class Says Blockbuster Invades Privacy
2008/04/09
Two Attorneys Emerge in Detroit Mayor Case
2008/04/09
Discovery Across Borders
2008/04/07
Appeals court may let NSA lawsuits proceed
2008/04/04
Climate Work Heating Up at Law Firms
2008/04/03
Justices Weigh Definitions of Competency
2008/04/01
Expert Testimony Issues on the Rise
2008/03/28
DOJ to Continue Crackdown on Political Corruption
2008/03/27
Nebraska legislature rejects death penalty ban
2008/03/26
SEC Proposes "Naked" Short Selling Anti-Fraud Rule
2008/03/19
Cyclist Landis Appeals Arbitration Court Ruling
2008/03/14
Jackson Lawyer: Neverland Auction Off
2008/03/13
NewsScandal-hit Spitzer faces wait for law firm role
2008/03/09
MobiTV, HowardForums avoid legal skirmish
2008/03/07
Judge KOs Challenge to Internet Bet Law
2008/03/07
Bush: 'US Must Not Let Down Its Guard'
2008/03/06
Judge Wants to Resolve Indian Lands Case
2008/03/05
Swiss Bank Drops Wikileaks Lawsuit
2008/03/05
Judge Wants Shipwreck Evidence Worked On
2008/03/04
Lawsuit Dropped in Pain Doctor Case
2008/03/04
Ciolli Sues Yale Law Students in AutoAdmit Scandal
2008/03/03
Lawyer in Bribery Case Says Witness Lied
2008/03/03
Supreme Court May Re-examine What Is "Indecent"
2008/03/03
Court may opt to pay fees from Bible suit
2008/02/28
eBay Settles Patent Dispute With MercExchange
2008/02/27
Court Denies Altria Motions To Dimiss Claims
2008/02/25
A Law Firm Puts Its Chefs on Trial
2008/02/25
Former partner suing Dorsey & Whitney law firm
2008/02/25
Supreme Court to hear car search, tribal land cases
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Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside
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2024/04/22 12:05
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The Supreme Court will consider Monday whether banning homeless people from sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
The case is considered the most significant to come before the high court in decades on homelessness, which has reached record levels in the United States.
In California and other Western states, courts have ruled that it’s unconstitutional to fine and arrest people sleeping in homeless encampments if shelter space is lacking.
A cross-section of Democratic and Republican officials contend that makes it difficult for them to manage encampments, which can have dangerous and unsanitary living conditions.
But hundreds of advocacy groups argue that allowing cities to punish people who need a place to sleep will criminalize homelessness and ultimately make the crisis worse as the cost of housing increases.
Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the court Monday morning with silver thermal blankets and signs like “housing not handcuffs.”
The Justice Department has also weighed in. It argues people shouldn’t be punished just for sleeping outside, but only if there’s a determination they truly have nowhere else to go.
The case comes from the rural Oregon town of Grants Pass, which started fining people $295 for sleeping outside to manage homeless encampments that sprung up in the city’s public parks as the cost of housing escalated.
The measure was largely struck down by the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which also found in 2018 that such bans violated the Eighth Amendment by punishing people for something they don’t have control over. The 9th Circuit oversees nine Western states, including California, which is home to about one-third of the nation’s homeless population.
The case comes after homelessness in the United States grew a dramatic 12%, to its highest reported level as soaring rents and a decline in coronavirus pandemic assistance combined to put housing out of reach for more Americans, according to federal data. The court is expected to decide the case by the end of June. |
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Court upholds mandatory prison terms for some low-level drug dealers
Legal News Highlight |
2024/03/15 13:48
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The Supreme Court ruled Friday that thousands of low-level drug dealers are ineligible for shortened prison terms under a Trump-era bipartisan criminal justice overhaul.
The justices took the case of Mark Pulsifer, an Iowa man who was convicted of distributing at least 50 grams of methamphetamine, to settle a dispute among federal courts over the meaning of the word “and” in a muddy provision of the 2018 First Step Act.
The law’s so-called safety valve provision is meant to spare low-level, nonviolent drug dealers who agree to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors from having to face often longer mandatory sentences.
Some courts had concluded the use of the word indeed means “and,” but others decided that it means “or.” A defendant’s eligibility for a shorter sentence depended on the outcome.
“Today, we agree with the Government’s view of the criminal-history provision,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the majority in the 6-3 decision that did not split the justices along liberal-conservative lines.
In dissent, Justice Neil Gorsuch referred to the First Step Act as possibly “the most significant criminal-justice reform bill in a generation.” But under the court’s decision, “thousands more people in the federal criminal justice system will be denied a chance—just a chance at” a reduced sentence, Gorsuch wrote, joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor.
Nearly 6,000 people convicted of drug trafficking in the 2021 budget year alone are in the pool of those who might have been eligible for reduced sentences, according to data compiled by the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
The provision lists three criteria for allowing judges to forgo a mandatory minimum sentence that basically looks to the severity of prior crimes. Congress wrote the section in the negative so that a judge can exercise discretion in sentencing if a defendant “does not have” three sorts of criminal history.
Before reaching their decision, the justices puzzled over how to determine eligibility for the safety valve — whether any of the conditions is enough to disqualify someone or whether it takes all three to be ineligible.
Pulsifer’s lawyers argued that all three conditions must apply before the longer sentence can be imposed. The government said just one condition is enough to merit the mandatory minimum. |
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Supreme Court casts doubt on GOP-led states’ efforts to regulate social media
Legal News Highlight |
2024/03/01 11:32
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The Supreme Court cast doubt Monday on state laws that could affect how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users. The cases are among several this term in which the justices could set standards for free speech in the digital age.
In nearly four hours of arguments, several justices questioned aspects of laws adopted by Republican-dominated legislatures and signed by Republican governors in Florida and Texas in 2021. But they seemed wary of a broad ruling, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett warning of “land mines” she and her colleagues need to avoid in resolving the two cases.
While the details vary, both laws aimed to address conservative complaints that the social media companies were liberal-leaning and censored users based on their viewpoints, especially on the political right.
Differences on the court emerged over how to think about the platforms — as akin to newspapers that have broad free-speech protections, or telephone companies, known as common carriers, that are susceptible to broader regulation.
Chief Justice John Roberts suggested he was in the former camp, saying early in the session, “And I wonder, since we’re talking about the First Amendment, whether our first concern should be with the state regulating what we have called the modern public square?”
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas appeared most ready to embrace arguments made by lawyers for the states. Thomas raised the idea that the companies are seeking constitutional protection for “censoring other speech.”
Alito complained about the term “content moderation” that the sites employ to keep material off their platforms.
“Is it anything more than a euphemism for censorship?” he asked, later musing that term struck him as Orwellian. But Justice Brett Kavanaugh, seemingly more favorable to the companies, took issue with calling the actions of private companies censorship, a term he said should be reserved for restrictions imposed by the government.
“When I think of Orwellian, I think of the state, not the private sector, not private individuals,” Kavanaugh said.
The precise contours of rulings in the two cases were not clear after arguments, although it seemed likely the court would not let the laws take effect. The justices posed questions about how the laws might affect businesses that are not their primary targets, including e-commerce sites like Uber and Etsy and email and messaging services. |
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UN court rejects most of Ukraine’s terror financing case against Russia
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2024/02/02 11:06
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The United Nations’ top court on Wednesday rejected large parts of a case filed by Ukraine alleging that Russia bankrolled separatist rebels in the country’s east a decade ago and has discriminated against Crimea’s multiethnic community since its annexation of the peninsula.
The International Court of Justice ruled Moscow violated articles of two treaties — one on terrorism financing and another on eradicating racial discrimination — but it rejected far more of Kyiv’s claims under the treaties.
It rejected Ukraine’s request for Moscow to pay reparations for attacks in eastern Ukraine blamed on pro-Russia Ukrainian rebels, including the July 17, 2014, downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that killed all 298 passengers and crew.
Russia has denied any involvement in the downing of the jetliner. A Dutch domestic court convicted two Russians and a pro-Moscow Ukrainian in November 2022 for their roles in the attack and sentenced them in their absence to life imprisonment. The Netherlands and Ukraine also have sued Russia at the European Court of Human Rights over MH17.
In another rebuke for Moscow, the world court ruled that Russia had violated one of the court’s orders by launching its full-scale invasion in Ukraine nearly two years ago.
The leader of Ukraine’s legal team, Anton Korynevych, called the ruling “a really important day because this is a judgment which says that the Russian Federation violated international law, in particular both conventions under which we made our application.”
The legally binding final ruling was the first of two expected decisions from the International Court of Justice linked to the decade-long conflict between Russia and Ukraine that exploded into all-out war almost two years ago.
At hearings last year, a lawyer for Ukraine, David Zionts, said the pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine “attacked civilians as part of a campaign of intimidation and terror. Russian money and weapons fueled this campaign.” |
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Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ruling
Legal News Highlight |
2024/01/05 10:40
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Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling barring him from the Colorado ballot, setting up a high-stakes showdown over whether a constitutional provision prohibiting those who “engaged in insurrection” will end his political career.
Trump appealed a 4-3 ruling in December by the Colorado Supreme Court that marked the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was used to bar a presidential contender from the ballot. The court found that Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualified him under the clause.
The provision has been used so sparingly in American history that the U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled on it. Wednesday’s development came a day after Trump’s legal team filed an appeal against a ruling by Maine’s Democratic Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, that Trump was ineligible to appear on that state’s ballot over his role in the Capitol attack. Both the Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine secretary of state’s rulings are on hold until the appeals play out.
Trump’s critics have filed dozens of lawsuits seeking to disqualify him in multiple states. He lost Colorado by 13 percentage points in 2020 and does not need to win the state to gain either the Republican presidential nomination or the presidency. But the Colorado ruling has the potential to prompt courts or secretaries of state to remove him from the ballot in other, must-win states.
None had succeeded until a slim majority of Colorado’s seven justices — all appointed by Democratic governors — ruled last month against Trump. Critics warned that it was an overreach and that the court could not simply declare that the Jan. 6 attack was an “insurrection” without a judicial process.
“The Colorado Supreme Court decision would unconstitutionally disenfranchise millions of voters in Colorado and likely be used as a template to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters nationwide,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in their appeal to the nation’s highest court, noting that Maine has already followed Colorado’s lead. |
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