Supreme Court skeptical of Trump ballot disqualification by Colorado

• A lawyer for Colorado voters told the Supreme Cour that Donald Trump had disqualified himself from becoming president again because he engaged in insurrection in his attempt to remain in the White House after losing the 2020 election.
• The attorney, Jason Murray, urged the Supreme Court to dismiss Trump's argument that Colorado's highest court had erred in December by barring him from that state's 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot on the grounds "he engaged in insurrection."
• The arguments come as Trump has a commanding lead in the national GOP primary race, with a long-shot bid from former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley appearing to be the only potential stumbling block to him securing the party's nomination this summer.

The Supreme Court on Thursday strongly questioned a ruling by Colorado's top court that barred Donald Trump from the state's Republican presidential primary ballot.

A number of Supreme Court justices, among them two liberal justices, were skeptical of the rationale and process that the Colorado Supreme Court used to disqualify Trump from that ballot.

"I think that the question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the United States," Justice Elena Kagan, one of those liberals, told a lawyer for Colorado voters who sought Trump's disqualification.

She and other justices expressed concern about a lack of consistency across states in which some ban a federal candidate, while others allow the same candidate to remain on their ballots.

Oral arguments in the case, where Trump is seeking a reversal of the Colorado ban, ended after about two hours. It is not clear when the U.S. Supreme Court will issue its ruling.

Jason Murray, the lawyer for the