Supreme Court may announce Trump ballot paper ruling ahead of Super Tuesday: Live

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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump could find out today whether the US Supreme Court will let him appear on this year’s ballot papers as he attempts to close in on his party’s nomination.

The justices are expected to decide at least one case on Monday, with signs strongly pointing to a resolution of the case from Colorado that threatens to kick Mr Trump off state ballots over his efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 election.

Should any opinion be delivered, it will be posted on the court’s website later today.

Mr Trump is challenging a ground-breaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court, which found in December that he should be ineligible to run for the White House again or take part in the state’s primary – one of 16 taking place tomorrow on Super Tuesday – citing an anti-insurrectionist clause housed within the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

Maine and Illinois followed Colorado’s example and America’s highest court heard arguments on the matter on 8 February, its justices strongly signalling their support for Mr Trump’s arguments.

The candidate picked up three further primary wins over the weekend but lost the DC contest to rival Nikki Haley.

In rather less welcome news from Trump’s point of view, the nation’s capital delivered Nikki Haley her first victory of the 2024 Republican primary season on Sunday, ending her losing streak and providing her campaign with the sliver of hope it desperately needed.

Haley’s defeat of Trump in DC marks the first time another Republican has beaten him in any contest since 2016 and is the first sign that the 2024 GOP primary will be anything more than a display of his