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Colorado G.O.P. asks justices to review Trump ballot eligibility

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Share Lawyers for Colorado’s Republican Party came to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, asking the justices to overturn a ruling by that state’s highest court that would leave former President Donald Trump off Colorado’s primary ballot in 2024 because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. And in Sept. 6 attack on the Capitol.

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Supreme Court to decide whether insurrection provision keeps Trump off ballot

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A state administrative law judge agreed that Greene’s “heated rhetoric may well have contributed to the environment that ultimately led to” the attack on the Capitol, but he concluded that she had not engaged in an insurrection. But that law was repealed in the 1940s, Trump tells the justices. 6 attack on the Capitol.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson

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In a December 2020 letter, during his presidential transition, he asked Democratic senators to recommend public defenders and civil rights lawyers, who have generally been underrepresented on the federal bench, for judgeships. Her father then went to law school, eventually becoming the chief attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board.

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