'Daunting consequence': Supreme Court chief justice on removing Trump from Colorado ballot
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Thursday appeared skeptical toward a judicial decision kicking former president Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado for participating in an insurrection during the 2021 Capitol attack in a case with major implications for the Nov. 5 election.
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![Myra Slotnick of Provincetown, Mass., holds banners in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday in Washington, D.C., where the justices took up a historic case that could decide whether Donald Trump is ineligible for the 2024 ballot. Several people hold signs outside an august building, that read 'Trump is a Traitor' and 'Let the Reckoning Begin.'](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7108814.1707405649!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/supreme-court-fourteenth-amendment.jpg)
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Thursday appeared skeptical toward a judicial decision kicking former president Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado for participating in an insurrection during the 2021 Capitol attack in a case with major implications for the Nov. 5 election.