唐纳德·特朗普周四，他向美国最高法院提交了他的简报，大法官将在下个月听取关于第14修正案的“叛乱条款”是否使他失去竞选总统或再次担任公职的资格的辩论。
他要求撤销科罗拉多州最高法院去年12月做出的将他排除在该州共和党初选之外的判决。
特朗普在向美国最高法院的上诉中警告说，如果科罗拉多州或其他任何州被允许取消他在2024年初选和大选投票中的资格，将会发生“混乱和混乱”。
特朗普的法律团队在一份59页的简报中写道:“法院应该迅速果断地结束这些取消选票资格的努力，这些努力有可能剥夺数千万美国人的选举权，如果其他州法院和州官员效仿科罗拉多州的做法，将这位可能的共和党总统候选人排除在他们的选票之外，可能会引发混乱和混乱。”
科罗拉多州高等法院的裁决标志着根据美国宪法第14修正案第3条对特朗普候选人资格的挑战首次成功。
12月19日，科罗拉多州七名法官中的大多数表示，这位前总统没有资格出现在该州2024年的共和党初选投票中，因为他在2021年1月6日“从事叛乱”。
美国最高法院定于2月8日听取科罗拉多州案件的口头辩论。
内战后批准的第14修正案第3条规定，任何人不得“担任任何职务”，如果他或她作为“美国官员”曾“参与叛乱”或为叛乱分子提供“援助或安慰”。
前总统向最高法院的上诉直接针对科罗拉多州高等法院对该法律的解释，他们称之为“可疑”。
特朗普声称，作为总统，他不是“美国官员”;他没有“参与”任何接近“暴动”的事情如果国会不采取进一步行动，该修正案是不可执行的;而且，该修正案只是禁止“在职”人员不出现在竞选职位的选票上。
缅因州国务卿后来就“参与叛乱”条款做出了类似的裁决，缅因州审判法院周三推迟了这一裁决，等待美国最高法院就特朗普的选票可获得性做出决定。
此外，还有十多起与此相关的诉讼悬而未决，明尼苏达州、密歇根州和俄勒冈州的诉讼均被驳回。
1月4日，特朗普的律师就科罗拉多州的裁决向美国最高法院提起上诉，在一份43页的文件中写道，“在我们‘民有、民治、民享’的政府体系中，科罗拉多州的裁决不是也不可能是正确的。”
周四提交的辩护状还包括代表前总统和挑战者提交的一系列法庭之友辩护状。周四早些时候，共和党参议员特德·克鲁兹、众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯和其他177名国会议员提交了一份支持川普的简报。
以克鲁兹为首的42名参议员和以斯卡利斯为首的137名众议院议员敦促国家高等法院推翻科罗拉多州最高法院的裁决。
“作为国会议员，阿米西对在第十四修正案第三条的背景下维护和保护国会的作用有着浓厚的兴趣，”议员们写道。
这些成员还声称，第3条不适用于前总统特朗普，科罗拉多州最高法院的裁决未能有意义地定义“参与叛乱”。
Trump asks US Supreme Court to keep him on ballot in 14th Amendment case
Donald Trumpon Thursday filed his brief with the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of the justices hearing arguments next month about whether the 14th Amendment's "insurrection clause" disqualifies him from running for president or holding the office again.
He asks that the judgment of the Colorado Supreme Court, which in December ruled him off the state's Republican primary ballot, be reversed.
In his appeal to the nation's highest court, Trump warns "chaos and bedlam" would ensue if Colorado or any other state is allowed to disqualify him from the 2024 primary and general-election ballots.
"The Court should put a swift and decisive end to these ballot-disqualification efforts, which threaten to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans and which promise to unleash chaos and bedlam if other state courts and state officials follow Colorado's lead and exclude the likely Republican presidential nominee from their ballots," Trump's legal team wrote in a 59-page brief.
The ruling from Colorado's high court marked the first time a challenge to Trump's candidacy under Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment had succeeded.
On Dec. 19, a majority of Colorado's seven justices said the former president was ineligible to appear on the state's Republican primary ballot in 2024 because he "engaged in insurrection" on Jan. 6, 2021.
Former President Donald Trump sits in New York State Supreme Court during the civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization in New York, Jan. 11, 2024.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the Colorado case on Feb 8.
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, ratified after the Civil War, says no person shall "hold any office" if as an "officer of the U.S." he or she previously "engaged in insurrection" or gave "aid or comfort" to insurrectionists.
The former president's appeal to the Supreme Court takes direct aim at the Colorado high court's interpretation of that law, which they call "dubious."
Trump alleges he was not an "officer of the U.S." as president; that he did not "engage in" anything close to "insurrection;" that the amendment is not enforceable without further action by Congress; and, that the amendment is only a prohibition against persons "holding office" not appearing on a ballot for office.
Maine's secretary of state later made a similar finding concerning the "engaged in insurrection" clause, a ruling deferred by a Maine trial court on Wednesday, pending a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Trump's ballot accessibility.
More than a dozen additional lawsuits on the topic are pending, with challenges in Minnesota, Michigan and Oregon rejected.
Trump's lawyers appealed the Colorado decision to the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 4, writing In a 43-page filing that "in our system of 'government of the people, by the people, [and] for the people,' Colorado's ruling is not and cannot be correct."
The brief filed Thursday also comes in addition to a number of amicus briefs filed on both the former president and the challengers' behalf. Earlier on Thursday, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, and 177 other members of Congress filed a brief in support of Trump.
Forty-two senators, led by Cruz, and 137 House members, led by Scalise, urged the nation's high court to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court's decision.
"As members of Congress, amici have a strong interest in vindicating and protecting the role of Congress in the context of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment," the members wrote.
The members also claimed that Section 3 does not apply to former President Trump and that the Colorado Supreme Court's decision failed to meaningfully define "Engage in Insurrection."
