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Andrew Chung/ReutersState officials cannot prohibit Donald Trump—or anyone else—from running for the White House “even if the candidate is an admitted insurrectionist,” the former president’s lawyers told the Supreme Court on Thursday.The nation’s highest court is now considering whether Colorado and several other states can yank Trump from the 2024 ballot, employing the 14th Amendment to deem his plot to remain in office after losing the 2020 election as an “insurrection” as defined by the Cons

Supreme Court justices appeared to be looking for a way to leave Donald Trump on Colorado's ballot for political stability.

The House of Representatives has impeached three presidents in U.S. history: A. Johnson, Clinton and Trump. The Senate never convicted them.

Colorado will make headlines across the world as the nation's highest court will hear a case challenging Donald's Trump eligibility to run for office​​ in the Centennial State. The lead plaintiff in the case is a former state lawmaker.

Another issue on which the Supreme Court may be inclined to decide Trump v. Anderson without getting into whether former President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection is whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment even applies to the president, perhaps the technical issue most widely debated among legal scholars. Of note, Trump makes this the lead argument of his briefing before the Supreme Court, spending more pages on it than any other issue. First, disqualification is triggered by those “who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United Stat...