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The Supreme Court is About to Determine Trump’s Fate.

The highest court in the land is taking up Trump’s Colorado Ballot case.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readJan 6, 2024
Photo by Ian Hutchinson on Unsplash

It really wouldn’t be a Donald Trump presidential campaign if issue after issue wasn’t popping up, right? what would an election cycle be this day in age for the Republican Party if there wasn’t fire after fire for the frontrunner’s team to put out. Of course, it’s gone beyond his own personal legal issues now, and the four indictments he’s facing. As we all know, the state of Colorado has determined that Trump will be left off of their ballot due to his involvement in the January 6th insurrection that led to multiple deaths and his VP quite literally running for his life.

But, Trump hasn’t seemed to be sweating the drama in Colorado has he? Frankly, that’s probably due to a number of reasons, not the least of which that he and his team both know that his base relishes in the idea that he’s somehow a victim or underdog. They eat it up, and I’m sure they’ve come to the rationalization that this sort of thing helps them in the long run.

And then there’s the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court that has been built after years of the right wing carefully stacking the courts in their favor, and Trump himself even picking three of the nine judges currently sitting on…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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