Former United States President Donald Trump's lawyers wrote to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), urging the justices to return him to the Republican primary ballot in Colorado.
"The Court should put a swift and decisive end to these ballot-disqualification efforts, which threaten to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans and which promise to unleash chaos and bedlam if other state courts and state officials follow Colorado's lead and exclude the likely Republican presidential nominee from their ballots," Trump's lawyers said in the letter and claimed the decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to remove Trump from the ballot was based on a “dubious interpretation” of the 14th Amendment.
Meanwhile, 179 congressional Republicans, including Senator Ted Cruz and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, signed a petition urging SCOTUS to allow Trump to appear on the Colorado ballot.