Conservative Warrior Joins Trump’s High Court Ballot Fight (1)

The Texas lawyer who designed that state’s six-week abortion law letting private citizens seek $10,000 bounties from violators has been hired by Donald Trump for his US Supreme Court fight to stay on the presidential ballot.

Jonathan Mitchell filed a letter Thursday with the high court saying he is representing Trump in his appeal of a Colorado ruling that disqualified him from the state’s primary ballot for attempting to overturn the 2020 election — one of the most politically charged questions to reach the nine justices in decades.

The Austin-based lawyer has argued five cases before the high court, adding ...