Trump Begs Supreme Court to Let Him Stay on Colorado Ballot

Donald Trump pressed the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reverse a ruling by Colorado’s highest court striking his name from the state’s Republican primary ballot, warning of the “chaos and bedlam” that could be around the corner should the challenges to his candidacy be allowed to stand.

The former president’s legal team filed a brief laying out his position ahead of oral arguments, which have been scheduled by the justices for Feb. 8.

“The Court should put a swift and decisive end to these ballot-disqualification efforts,” they wrote, “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.”

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