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On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) heard oral arguments concerning former President Donald Trump’s disqualification from Colorado’s Republican primary ballot. How the Court rules will ultimately depend on how seriously it takes a fringe legal argument Trump’s lawyers are presenting. During oral arguments, Trump’s attorneys argued that as president of the United States, Trump wasn’t technically an “officer of the United States” as defined by the US Constitution. They posited that the term “officers” instead refers to cabinet officials, judges and other presidential app…

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