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Demonstrators gather outside Supreme Court as landmark Trump ballot case gets underway
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Arguments are underway at the Supreme Court in former President Donald Trump’s appeal to remain on the 2024 ballot.
In the justices’ biggest election case since Bush v. Gore, the court is weighing arguments over whether Trump is disqualified from reclaiming the White House because of his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss, ending with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Dozens of protestors - most of them anti-Trump - gathered outside the court Thursday morning to demand the former president be left off the ballot.
If "the office of the presidency is no longer accountable to the Constitution, then what future do we have in this country?" asked demonstrator Lisa Fathian.
A handful of Trump backers were also on hand, insisting he's done nothing wrong - and the final say should be up to the voters.
"He deserves to be on the ballot. There's been nothing shown that would disqualify him from that," said Kelli Walk of Lynchburg, Virginia.
The case marks the first time the justices are considering a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office again.
Colorado's Supreme Court kicked Trump off the state's Republican primary ballot in ruling that he incited the Capitol riot.