The Supreme Court is expected to announce a decision on whether former US President Donald Trump is eligible to hold presidential office today, March 4.

The New York Times reported Sunday that the Court announced that it would issue at least one decision tomorrow – which suggested it would rule on Trump’s eligibility to appear on Colorado’s primary ballot.

Colorado is holding its presidential primary on Tuesday, along with 15 other states and one U.S. territory.

The opinion or opinions will be posted online at 10 a.m. Monday, just one day before the important set of presidential primaries

The ruling is expected to resolve if Trump, 77, the Republican frontrunner, can appear on Colorado’s ballot – and clear up any questions on his eligibility to appear on the general election ballot later this year.

The Colorado Supreme Court issued a blockbuster decision in December, saying that due to Trump’s role in the January 6 Capitol attack he was ineligible to seek or hold office due to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

That portion of the Constitution was added after the Civil War and barred those who ‘engaged in insurrection’ from holding public office again.

The decision was 4-3 with Democratic-appointed justices ruling against the former president.

It marked the first time in history the insurrection clause was used to potentially bar a presidential candidate from office.

On January 3, Trump officially asked the Supreme Court to hear an appeal.

Trump appointed three of the current nine justices on the conservative-leaning court and so the case is expected to fall in his favor.

During oral arguments last month, even some of the liberal justices were skeptical of the arguments made by Colorado’s top court.

Justices indicated they were wary of allowing individual states to disqualify candidates from the ballot without Congress passing a law that would allow them to do so first.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was appointed by Democratic President Joe Biden, said during oral arguments that she doubted the drafters of the section intended to create ‘disuniformity in this way, where we have elections pending and different states suddenly saying, “you’re eligible, you’re not.'”

The Supreme Court is also considering a case on whether Trump is immune from prosecution for crimes related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

 

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley won her first GOP presidential nominating contest on Sunday, March 3 a victory in the Washington, D.C., primary, — a win her campaign hopes will help her ahead of next week’s Super Tuesday contests.

 

Haley, who won the primary over former President Donald Trump, has  pledged to stay in the race through Super Tuesday, when 15 states and American Samoa will hold nominating contests. Trump is dominating in nearly all of those states in most public polling and is expected to extend his commanding delegate lead.

 

Haley took 63% of the GOP primary vote to 33% for Trump with over 2,000 Washington Republicans casting their ballots.

 

As Haley got more than half of the vote, she came away with the District’s 19 delegates.

Washington’s set of Republicans, many of whom work in politics or government, are seen as vastly different from those in other states, like South Carolina and Iowa, which set up a scenario in which Haley had her first legitimate chance to notch a victory. Trump got just 14% of the vote in Washington’s 2016 primary.

 

“It could be anywhere between 2,000 and 6,000 voters,” Washington GOP chair Patrick Mara predicted in an interview last week. “So, quite frankly, there is an opportunity here for anyone to win. It just depends on voter turnout and what the campaigns are doing.”

Mara said both Haley’s and Trump’s campaigns were sending text messages and making phone calls to inspire turnout, even having some volunteers go door to door.

The primary is run by the local Republican Party, unlike nominating contests in states, and there was just one polling location, at the Madison Hotel.

“It’s run by the party, which is a different experience, and we pay for it,” he said.

“So it means that Washington Republicans had to be motivated to come to downtown D.C. to a hotel to vote.”

He said Trump’s dominance in early primary states and the perception of the Republican nominating process also affected low turnout.