Donald Trump presented a series of arguments to the Supreme Court why he should continue to run in the 2024 election.
Politico writes about this.
Trump also called on the court to end lawsuits against his participation in the election race. According to him, these lawsuits allegedly threaten to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans and wreak havoc across the country.
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Trump's lawyers urged the justices to overturn a December decision by the Colorado Supreme Court, which ruled that Donald Trump should be barred from running for office under the 14th Amendment, which bars people from holding public office if they have participated in rebellion after swearing to support the Constitution.
The US Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case on February 8th.
Donald Trump laid out his arguments in 59 pages of the lawsuit and they largely repeat the arguments he made in lower courts.
Trump denies he incited the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
Nothing President Trump did in response to the 2020 election or January 6, 2021, even remotely qualifies as an insurrection, his lawyers say.
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— President Trump never participated in or directed any of the unlawful acts that took place at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. In fact, the opposite is true, as President Trump has repeatedly called for peace, patriotism and law and order, the document says.
Trump representatives said his Jan. 6 speech was purely political speech protected by the 1st Amendment and not an attempt to incite his supporters to storm the Capitol.
Claims that President Trump had telepathic powers and knew how his supporters would react do not hold up, his lawyers say.
