Trump Backers Dodge Jan. 6 in Supreme Court Ballot Case (1)

Few outside briefs supporting Donald Trump’s US Supreme Court appeal to stay on Colorado’s Republican primary ballot defend his actions on Jan. 6, which voters suing him say amounted to insurrection and disqualifies him from the presidency.

More than two dozen amicus filings supporting the Republican front-runner submitted ahead of Thursday’s argument in Trump v. Anderson instead focus largely on technical arguments about how and when Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars someone who engaged in insurrection from holding future office.

Josh Blackman, a South Texas College of Law professor who filed a brief supporting Trump, says the case ...