Experts on a Heritage Foundation panel predicted the U.S. Supreme Court would rule in favor of former President Donald Trump in its Colorado ballot disqualification case, as the court prepares to hear oral arguments Thursday morning.
“It would take an absolute complete collapse of Trump’s legal team for him to lose everything. It’s possible, right? But he’d have to lose every single human point,” South Texas College of Law Professor Josh Blackman said. “In order for Trump to lose, he has to lose ‘bigly.’”
At 10:00 a.m., the Supreme Court will hear Trump’s appeal to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court’s Dec. 19 ruling, which sided with Secretary of State Jena Griswold in removing the former president from the state’s 2024 primary ballot.
Five experts on a Heritage Foundation panel Wednesday pointed out the legal flaws in the Colorado ruling, as well as the subsequent move by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows – a 2020 Joe Biden elector – to remove Trump from the state’s primary ballot.
The panel included Blackman, Heritage’s Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government John Malcolm, manager of Heritage’s Election Law Reform Initiative Hans von Spakovsky, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, and attorney Patrick Strawbridge.
“The issue is whether state authorities, not just courts, but a lone state official has the ability to disqualify an otherwise qualified candidate for president,” Spakovsky said.
The Supreme Court will likely aim for a unanimous ruling due to the high consequence of the matter, both Rokita and Strawbridge
