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Fil-Am legal expert: SCOTUS likely to rule for Trump in Colorado case

A Fil-Am legal expert sees the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of former president Donald Trump in Colorado's bid to keep him off the ballot in the 2024 elections.

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<div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T12ERAwHShU?&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>Former U.S. president Donald Trump is riding high from recent victories, including his caucus win in Nevada as he gets closer to clinching the Republican presidential nomination.</p><p>Legal experts said Trump may soon get another good news from the U.S. Supreme Court.</p><p>The high court held oral arguments last week on keeping the erstwhile leader from the 2024 ballot due to his involvement in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.</p><div><a data-ved="2ahUKEwjE-JSe8KqEAxX8h1YBHe7DB24QFnoECBoQAQ" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/2/8/us-supreme-court-hears-high-stakes-trump-ballot-case-029" ping="/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/2/8/us-supreme-court-hears-high-stakes-trump-ballot-case-029&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjE-JSe8KqEAxX8h1YBHe7DB24QFnoECBoQAQ" style="color:rgb(26, 13, 171);text-decoration:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);outline:0px;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" id="isPasted"></a><a data-ved="2ahUKEwjE-JSe8KqEAxX8h1YBHe7DB24QFnoECBoQAQ" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/2/8/us-supreme-court-hears-high-stakes-trump-ballot-case-029" id="isPasted" ping="/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/2/8/us-supreme-court-hears-high-stakes-trump-ballot-case-029&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjE-JSe8KqEAxX8h1YBHe7DB24QFnoECBoQAQ" style="color:rgb(26, 13, 171);text-decoration:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);outline:0px;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">US Supreme Court hears high-stakes Trump ballot case</a></div><div style="line-height:1.3;padding:0px;display:flex;text-size-adjust:none;position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;align-items:center"><a data-ved="2ahUKEwjE-JSe8KqEAxX8h1YBHe7DB24QFnoECBoQAQ" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/2/8/us-supreme-court-hears-high-stakes-trump-ballot-case-029" ping="/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/2/8/us-supreme-court-hears-high-stakes-trump-ballot-case-029&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjE-JSe8KqEAxX8h1YBHe7DB24QFnoECBoQAQ" style="color:rgb(26, 13, 171);text-decoration:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);outline:0px;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(241, 243, 244);border:1px solid rgb(236, 237, 239);border-radius:50%;display:inline-flex;justify-content:center;align-items:center;height:26px;width:26px;margin-right:12px;vertical-align:middle"></span></a><br/></div><p>Prominent Filipino-American lawyer George Conway together with members of his new organization - the Society for the Rule of Law Institute - weighed in on the case.</p><p>“This seems to be where the consensus was,&quot; the conservative lawyer said, &quot;where they&#x27;re going to say that in the case of the president, states cannot make the determination that the president or the presidential candidate is disqualified.&quot;</p><p>He added: &quot;It&#x27;s going to be, I think, a very, very narrow decision, but it could command seven, eight or nine votes perhaps.”</p><p>Conway says the justices – some of which are Trump appointees, would likely find a way to rule for the former president without highlighting his role in the Capitol riots.</p><p>“I think they want to avoid that question,&quot; he added, &quot;because they do know deep down in the case of insurrection, they didn&#x27;t want to be the ones to drop the hammer on you.&quot;</p><p>Colorado’s supreme court ruled in December that Trump should be removed from the state’s ballot when he incited a mob to overturn the certification of now-President Joe Biden&#x27;s 2020 victory.</p><p>Fil-Am Luige del Puerto of the news outlet Colorado Politics points out that Trump lost in the state in the 2016 and 2020 elections.</p><p>He said the Colorado ruling, if upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, would reverberate in battleground states.</p><p>“Those closely divided states that are crucial to winning the electoral votes, I think this would matter to them more,” he said. “This is just a way for those who oppose Trump to try and get effectively more states to then go and kick him off of their ballots.”</p><p>During the oral arguments, several justices voiced concerns on how a state’s action could impact a presidential election nationwide.</p><p>Said Chief Justice John Roberts: “If Colorado&#x27;s position is upheld, surely there will be disqualification proceedings on the other side and some of those will succeed.&quot;</p><p>&quot;It will come down to just a handful of states that are going to decide the presidential election,&quot; Roberts continued. &quot;That&#x27;s a pretty daunting consequence.”</p><p>While some expect the justices to rule in favor of Trump, the court has yet to give a timeframe on the release of its decision.</p>

<p>A Fil-Am legal expert sees the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of former president Donald Trump in Colorado's bid to keep him off the ballot in the 2024 elections.</p>

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