US Supreme Court could decide Monday whether Trump can be barred from the 2024 ballot

Former President Donald Trump might find out on Monday if the Supreme Court will allow him to appear on this year’s ballot, as the leading Republican presidential contender seeks his party’s candidature.

At least one issue involving Colorado, which stands to prevent Trump from running for office in some states due to his attempts to reverse his election defeat in 2020, is anticipated to be decided by the justices on Monday. Any opinions will be posted shortly after 10 a.m. EST on the court’s website.

Trump is contesting a landmark ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court that declared him ineligible for Tuesday’s state primary and barred from running for president again.

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The lawsuit would be resolved on Monday, one day before of Super Tuesday games in sixteen states, eliminating any doubt as to whether or not votes cast for Trump will eventually count. The court, which heard arguments on February 8 less than a month ago, has received requests for expedited work from both parties.

At that point, the justices appeared ready to rule in Trump’s favour.

A post-Civil War constitutional clause designed to bar anybody who “engaged in insurrection” from holding public office was first used by the Colorado court. Since then, Trump has also been prohibited from running for office in the primary in Illinois and Maine; however, the outcomes of these rulings, along with Colorado’s, are still unresolved in the Supreme Court case.

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The Supreme Court has until now never ruled on the provision, Section 3 of the 14th amendment.

The court indicated Sunday there will be at least one case decided Monday, adhering to its custom of not saying which one. But it also departed from its usual practice in some respects, heightening the expectation that it’s the Trump ballot case that will be handed down.

Except for when the end of the term approaches in late June, the court almost always issues decisions on days when the justices are scheduled to take the bench. But the next scheduled court day isn’t until March 15. And apart from during the coronavirus pandemic when the court was closed, the justices almost always read summaries of their opinions in the courtroom. They won’t be there Monday.

Separately, the justices last week agreed to hear arguments in late April over whether Trump can be criminally prosecuted on election interference charges, including his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The court’s decision to step into the politically charged case, also with little in the way of precedent to guide it, calls into question whether Trump will stand trial before the November election.

The former president faces 91 criminal charges in four prosecutions. Of those, the only one with a trial date that seems on track to hold is his state case in New York, where he’s charged with falsifying business records in connection with hush money payments to a porn actor. That case is set for trial on March 25, and the judge has signaled his determination to press ahead.