Conservative attorney decimates 'litigation loser' Trump’s 'very odd' Supreme Court petition
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review former President Donald Trump's challenge to the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling that Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment disqualifies him from the state ballot. Oral arguments are scheduled for February 8.
Legal experts have been hotly debating the Colorado ruling, and attorney George Conway is among the Never Trump conservatives who has voiced his support for the justices' decision. Now, it remains to be seen if the Roberts Court will agree or disagree with the Colorado ruling.
In an article published by the Atlantic on August 8, Conway lays out some reasons why he considers "litigation loser" Trump's petition to the U.S. Supreme Court "odd."
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"All parties to the case agreed that the Court should hear the case, and do so expeditiously, so that states and voters could know before the presidential-primary season ends whether Trump was eligible for office," Conway explains. "What was unusual was the Court's choice to grant review without specifying the particular legal issues it intends to decide."
Conway continues, "Both the Colorado Republican Party and Trump had petitioned the Supreme Court to take the case. The Court granted Trump's petition and did not rule on the Colorado GOP's. What's somewhat odd about that is that Trump's petition was itself odd — very odd."
That petition, according to Conway, "didn't conform with the ordinary rules and practices."
"His lawyers presented only one question, and it wasn't a discrete or pointed question of law, but rather, a blunderbuss one: 'Did the Colorado Supreme Court err in ordering President Trump excluded from the 2024 presidential primary ballot?'" Conway observes. "This was a Cuisinart of a question…. Trump's Cuisinart tries to blend a bunch of weak issues into a stronger one."
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Conway continues, "In appellate courts, that usually doesn't work….The reason the Court had to take the Cuisinart question was because Trump and the GOP couldn't find a dispositive legal proposition that the Colorado court clearly got wrong."
George Conway's full article for The Atlantic is available at this link (subscription required).
