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Colorado Republican State Central Committee v. Norma Anderson, et al.
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Colorado, No. 23SA300 · judgment December 19, 2023
Before the decision, about 3.4× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a petition filed soon after the judgment below and counsel who has won certiorari before.
Questions presented
The Supreme Court of Colorado held that states possess authority, regardless of the lack of congressional authorization, to determine that a presidential candidate is disqualified under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment and that former President Donald J. Trump is disqualified as an insurrectionist. The Questions Presented are:
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Whether the President falls within the list of officials subject to the disqualification provision of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment?
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Whether Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is self-executing to the extent of allowing states to remove candidates from the ballot in the absence of any Congressional action authorizing such process?
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Whether the denial to a political party of its ability to choose the candidate of its choice in a presidential primary and general election violates that party’s First Amendment Right of Association?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Jay Alan Sekulow
American Center for Law and Justice
For respondent
Jonathan F. Mitchell
Mitchell Law PLLC
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Amicus briefs
4 merits
(4 respondent)
Proceedings
- Mar 18 2024The petition for a writ of certiorari is dismissed as moot.
- Mar 11 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2024.
- Jan 05 2024Brief amici curiae of 45 Colorado Registered Electors filed.
- Jan 04 2024Waiver of right of respondent Donald J. Trump to respond filed.
- Jan 04 2024Brief amici curiae of Public Interest Legal Foundation and Hans von Spakovsky filed.
- Jan 04 2024Brief amicus curiae of Brian J. Martin filed.
- Jan 04 2024Reply of petitioner Colorado Republican State Central Committee filed.
- Jan 03 2024Brief amici curiae of Senator Steve Daines & National Republican Senatorial Committee filed. VIDED.
- Jan 02 2024Brief of respondent Jena Griswold, Secretary of State of Colorado in support filed.
- Jan 02 2024Brief of respondents Norma Anderson, et al. in opposition filed.
- Dec 28 2023Motion of the Anderson respondents to expedite briefing on the petition for a writ of certiorari and for expedited merits briefing if the petition is granted filed.
- Dec 28 2023Response of the Anderson respondents to petitioner's motion to expedite filed.
- Dec 27 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 29, 2024)
- Dec 27 2023Motion of petitioner to expedite consideration of the petition for a writ of certiorari and to expedite merits briefing and oral arugment in the event the petition is granted filed.