Donald Trump’s lawyers on Thursday bring to the U.S. Supreme Court his fight to keep him from being kicked off state presidential ballots for his actions involving the 2021 Capitol attack in a case with major implications for the November election. The nine justices, three of whom Trump appointed, will hear arguments in his appeal of a lower court’s decision tounder the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment after finding that he participated in an insurrection.
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars from holding public office any “officer of the United States” who took an oath “to support the Constitution of the United States” and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”is not expected to be present at the arguments scheduled for 10 a.m. ET (1500 GMT). Instead, he plans to start his day at his Florida home and travel to Nevada, according to a source familiar with his plan