The Texas lawyer Donald Trump hired to help his appeal to stay on Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot will argue his case at the US Supreme Court this week.
Jonathan Mitchell will represent Trump before the justices in the special sitting Feb. 8, the court announced Monday.
Trump is asking the court overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove him from the form for the Republican primary on March 5 primary. The state Supreme Court said Trump was disqualified because he incited the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol in violation of the Constitution’s insurrection clause.
Mitchell, an Austin-based ...
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