The National Republican Senatorial Committee hired Jones Day. This law firm worked on Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns and will now help to overturn Colorado’s decision to remove the 45th president, and likely GOP nominee for the 2024 elections, from the ballot.
Impressive resume
The firm, which has 2,400 lawyers, has been a go-to law firm for the Republican Party and its candidates. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) hired the firm to overturn the Colorado case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Unlike in previous years, Jones Day will not work for the Trump campaign.
The Colorado case
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled 4:3 to remove Trump from the state ballot. This was a historical move since it happened for the first time to use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to bar a presidential candidate from the ballot. The section claims that anyone “engaged in insurrection” cannot hold public office.
Trump’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court
Following Colorado’s ruling, Trump’s legal team, as well as Colorado’s Republican Party, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Six of the U.S. Supreme Court’s nine justices were appointed by Republicans. Out of those six, Trump appointed three.
Jones Day’s lawyer was Trump’s White House counsel
Trump named Jones Day’s Donald McGahn his first White House counsel following his victorious 2016 presidential campaign. McGahn advised Trump on picking the Supreme Court judges.
Trump’s telling tweet from 2018
In 2018, McGahn quit his position, and Trump wrote on then-Twitter, “McGahn had a much better chance of being fired than [Robert] Mueller. Never a big fan.”
Inside Trump’s filing to SCOTUS
Trump’s lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put his name back on the ballot, claiming it would “mark the first time in the history of the United States that the judiciary has prevented voters from casting ballots for the leading major-party presidential candidate.”
The filing continued
The filing said that the court should “return the right to vote for their candidate of choice to the voters,” adding that Trump was not involved in the insurrection. Instead, his team argued that many political protests “have turned violent.”
Trump’s also appealing in Maine
Trump’s campaign also appealed the decision to remove the former president from the Maine ballot. Shenna Bellows, Maine’s secretary of state, barred Trump from the primary ballot.
Fiesty response
Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump’s campaign, responded, “The Maine Secretary of State is a former ACLU attorney, a virulent leftist, and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat who has decided to interfere in the presidential election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden.”
Bellows accusations
“The record establishes that Mr. Trump, over the course of several months and culminating on January 6, 2021, used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the Capitol to prevent certification of the 2020 election and the peaceful transfer of power,” Bellows responded.
The Colorado judges faced threats
After kicking Trump from the ballot, there was a “significant violent rhetoric” towards the justices and Democrats, Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan organization, reported. Many threats were made publicly on social networks and pro-Trump forums. One message read, in part, “Slam dunk a judge’s baby into the trashcan.”
Well-known pattern
Though dangerous and frightening, these threats are not new. When a grand jury in Georgia indicted Trump, the addresses of the jurors were made public by a group of the former president’s supporters. Judge Chutkan, who is preceding a D.C. case, Judge Bragg, and even some FBI agents also faced MAGA fury.
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