12 January 2024
Michael Zander KC looks ahead to what will probably be the most high-profile case of next month—Donald Trump—in this week’s NLJ
The US Supreme Court is due to hear oral argument in the Trump case on 8 February. It will then decide whether to allow or overturn the Colorado State Supreme Court’s decision that Trump is disqualified from holding office and therefore cannot be listed as a candidate in a presidential primary ballot. The stakes are high.
In part two of his article on the potential return of Trump, Zander, NLJ columnist and Emeritus Professor, LSE, looks at the Colorado court’s 4–3 majority judgment, including the three dissenting opinions which ‘dealt solely with procedural, due process and jurisdictional issues’.
