Correspondent in Washington
The United States Supreme Court is set to deliver one of the most political rulings in its history, deciding whether one of the Civil War-era amendments to the US Constitution can apply to Donald Trump.
The nine justices of the highest court in the United States are scheduled to hear oral arguments in the Trump vs. Anderson case on Thursday.
They will have to confirm or not the disqualification of the former president for having participated in an insurrection on January 6, 2021.
An unprecedented legal crisis
The complaint was filed in Colorado by a former Republican elected official, Norma Anderson, who invoked the 14th Amendment of the Constitution to prevent the former president from running in her party's primary in that state.
First rejected by a Denver district judge, it was deemed admissible by the Colorado Supreme Court last December.
Considering that Trump falls within the scope of this amendment for having incited his supporters to attack the Capitol…
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