Opinion: The Republican Party’s bait and switch on abortion
When Republicans affirmed their party’s platform this week, it included a supposedly moderated position on abortion. Don’t believe it.For decades, the GOP has explicitly pledged…
How the Supreme Court keeps making another Trump presidency possible
The Supreme Court held Monday that a single state such as Colorado can’t prohibit Donald Trump from running for president as an insurrectionist under the…
5 ways Supreme Court could rule for Trump on 14th Amendment
WASHINGTON — Now that the Supreme Court has heard arguments in the case of President Trump and the 14th Amendment, it seems clear which side will…
Opinion: In a righteous world, Donald Trump would never be on another ballot
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in a Colorado case about whether former President Trump’s deep involvement in the deadly…
Maine election official appeals ruling that delayed decision on Trump ballot status
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s secretary of state is appealing a judge’s ruling that put on hold her decision to remove former President Trump from the ballot…
6 flawed ways the Supreme Court could keep Trump on the ballot
I recently surmised that in considering former President Trump’s eligibility to run for office under the 14th Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court will seek a…
Why the Supreme Court will probably put Trump back on the ballot
More than any U.S. Supreme Court case in decades, former President Trump’s appeal of the Colorado decision disqualifying him from the state’s primary ballot combines…
Supreme Court agrees to rule on whether Trump can run
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide on a fast-track basis whether former President Trump can be barred from the 2024 ballot…
Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to keep him on the ballot in Colorado
WASHINGTON — Former President Trump appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to quickly reverse a Colorado state court decision that would keep him off…
Kicking Trump off the ballot won’t be easy. Here’s why
WASHINGTON — The argument that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution bars Donald Trump from the ballot has rapidly gone from obscurity to the top of…
What you need to know about the 14th Amendment and barring Trump from the ballot
WASHINGTON — The argument that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution bars Donald Trump from the ballot has rapidly gone from obscurity to the top of…
Opinion: Colorado’s ruling against Trump raises questions only the Supreme Court can answer
The Colorado Supreme Court did the country an enormous service by ruling that Donald Trump is ineligible to be president and squarely presenting the constitutional…
Supreme Court faces big Trump cases over immunity, Colorado
WASHINGTON — As year-end approaches, the Supreme Court faces two pressing legal questions about former President Trump and his alleged misconduct in office that will weigh…
How the Colorado Supreme Court just upended Trump’s candidacy
Donald Trump has taken the country into unexplored legal territory often, but rarely so far as in Tuesday’s ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court. The…
Trump banned from Colorado ballot under insurrection clause
DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him…
Colorado 14th Amendment ruling is no victory for Donald Trump
The latest opinion denying a challenge to Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for president has occasioned a lot of teeth-gnashing about how the court, in…
Colorado judge keeps Trump on ballot, rejecting challenge
DENVER — A Colorado judge on Friday found that former President Trump engaged in insurrection during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol but…