The Supreme Court held the highly anticipated hearing of former President Donald Trump’s appeal to remain on the Colorado primary ballot, expressing repeated skepticism that a ruling to remove him would not result in swift and widespread election chaos.
Jason Clifford Murray argued for the six Colorado voters who petitioned to remove President Trump from the ballot, and several times frustrated judges by sidestepping questions about the consequences of a ruling in his favor.
Article 2 gives states broad power to run elections, Mr. Murray argued, and that involved removing ineligible candidates from the ballot—even in a national election—through the process of their choosing….
