On January 5th, the Supreme Court announced that they will look into the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot in Colorado.

This decision by the Supreme Court was not a surprise, with Devan Cole from CNN writing, “The state court’s ruling last month all but ensured that the justices would have to take up the politically fraught case and resolve the controversial question of whether Trump can be removed from the ballot” (January 5th).

In this same article published by CNN, Cole remarks that the Supreme Court “set an extraordinarily fast schedule to hear the Trump ballot dispute” (January 5th). Devan Cole writes that Trump’s opening brief is scheduled to be recorded by January 18th, and the opening arguments of those in Colorado who question his eligibility to run for office are to have theirs filed by January 31st (January 5th, CNN).

Devan Cole writes about how the case reached the Supreme Court in the first place stating, “Trump appealed the Colorado decision to the US Supreme Court on (January 3), a week after the state’s Republican Party also asked the justices to hear the case” (January 5th, CNN).

All of this follows a decision made by the Colorado Supreme Court, which is explained by Marshall Cohen, Devan Cole and Holmes Lybrand in a separate CNN article. In this article Cohen, Cole and Lybrand write that the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on December 19, 2023 that Trump was not eligible to run for president, under the premise that he violated the 14th amendment (December 19, 2023).

Later on in this CNN article Cohen, Cole and Lybrand give more information on the 14th amendment writing, “Ratified after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment says officials who take an oath to support the Constitution are banned from future office if they ‘engaged in insurrection’” (December 19, 2023).

In an article published by CNN Devan Cole writes that oral arguments are scheduled for February 8th and describes the Supreme Court’s decision as “the court’s most significant involvement in a presidential race since its highly consequential decision 23 years ago in Bush v. Gore” (January 5th).