Former President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared confident that the Supreme Court will allow him to remain on the 2024 election ballot in Colorado, predicting that three of his appointees to the high court and others will rule in his favor.
“We put three chief justices, and you’ve got some other great judges there, and they’re not going to take a vote from the people,” the 77-year-old Republican presidential front-runner told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
“I’m sure the Supreme Court will say, ‘We’re not going to take the vote away from the people,'” Trump added, accusing President Biden of being a real “threat to democracy.”
In a 4-3 decision last month, the liberal-majority Colorado Supreme Court deemed Trump ineligible to appear on the 2024 ballot in the Centennial State under the so-called rebellion clause in the Constitution.
The judges in the majority determined that Trump “engaged in rebellion” by his actions leading up to and during the January 6, 2021, riots at the US Capitol.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case seeking to overturn the Colorado court’s decision next month.
Trump predicted that the judge he appointed to the high court would rule in his favor in the Colorado vote case. Reuters
The former president went on to argue that his strong performance in many state and national elections should be taken into account by judges at the high court.
“But I don’t think the Supreme Court will do it because you can’t take votes. You know, I’m ahead in every poll. I’m leading Biden, but I’m leading the rest of the Republicans … they’re barely hanging on. How can you take a vote?” he said.
Trump appeared to remain focused on his pending court case as Hannity asked the former president to give a “closing message to the people of New Hampshire” ahead of the state’s Jan. 23 GOP primary.
Trump appointed three of the nine Supreme Court justices during his term. Getty Images
“It’s very simple: It Made America great again,” Trump said, before changing the subject to the pending outcome of his presidential immunity case argued before a three-judge panel in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals last week.
The former president suggested that his immunity case would eventually end up in the Supreme Court as well.
“They have another important thing [case] and that’s immunity for the president, the president of the United States. And I’m not talking about myself,” Trump said.
The liberal Colorado Supreme Court barred Trump from the state’s 2024 vote last month in a 4-3 decision. via REUTERS
“I am talking about any president having to have immunity, because if you take immunity from the president, very important, you will have – you have a president who will not be able to do anything, because when he leaves office, the president of the opposing party, if the opposing party, will accuse the president of doing something that should be good.”
Trump has argued that if the court rules against him on his presidential immunity claim, Biden, 81, would face indictments when he leaves office over his handling of the border crisis and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan even though, as Trump said, “he probably means well.”
“I think it’s terrible what he’s doing, but he might be, I don’t know, hard to believe, but he might mean well,” Trump said of Biden’s policies. “It’s hard to believe that he means well but the man is incompetent. But you have to leave immunity with the president.”
If the D.C. circuit court or the Supreme Court sided with Trump on his immunity claim, it would likely block special counsel Jack Smith’s efforts to prosecute him for his actions during the Capitol riots.
Unlike the Colorado vote case, the former president did not predict the outcome of his immunity claim during his Fox News appearance.
In a Truth Social post earlier in the day, Trump said he hoped it would be an “easy decision” for the court.
“God bless the Supreme Court,” he added.
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