WASHINGTON ¨C The latest legal challenge to Donald Trump¡¯s campaign for a second term as U.S. president seems likely to hand the 2024 Republican front-runner even more firepower in his quest to win his party¡¯s nomination.
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the former president was barred from its state ballot for engaging in ¡°insurrection¡± due to a rarely used constitutional provision, an unprecedented decision that the conservative-led U.S. Supreme Court could overturn.
Donors and political analysts from both major parties said the ruling would inflame Trump¡¯s political base, fuel his argument that he is the victim of a partisan legal process, and fill his campaign coffers, as happened earlier this year when he was indicted on a bevy of felony charges for attempting to overturn the 2020 election among other alleged crimes. Those charges did not include insurrection.
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