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Trump urges US Supreme Court to reverse Colorado ruling barring him from state's ballot

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on the Ellipse on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, near the White House in Washington, D.C., shortly before his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump appealed to the Supreme Court Thursday and urged the justices to quickly reverse a Colorado state court decision that would keep him off the ballot there on the grounds that he engaged in insurrection against the United States.

Trump, who is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, argued that the voters, not state judges, should decide who is elected to the nation’s highest office. His lawyers wrote that the Colorado decision “would unconstitutionally

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