The national Republican Party and the top House GOP campaign committee filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on Friday supporting Donald Trump’s efforts to remain on the 2024 ballot.
The Republican National Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee said in a joint filing that a recent Colorado Supreme Court decision to remove the former president from presidential primary ballots was undemocratic.
“This case arises from an historically unprecedented attempt to remove a presidential candidate from the ballot,” attorneys for the committees argued in the brief. “But the Colorado Supreme Court was the first to take the bait. It should have taken the other path.”
The brief stated that the rulings would ultimately lead to “chaos” not limited to a single candidate or election. “Once state courts begin purging candidates from the ballot, political opponents will begin picking each other off, harming confidence in our electoral........