This is who is the 90-year-old woman challenging Trump on the US Supreme Court

'Win or lose, I'm still glad I did it'. On Thursday, 8 February, the Anderson v Trump case will be heard before the US Supreme Court, and the plaintiff Norma Anderson, 91, is in good spirits. She is the woman who along with three other Republicans and two independents in Colorado sued Donald Trump to exclude him as a candidate in the presidential primaries under the 14th Amendment, which prohibits public office for officials involved in an insurrection. The insurrection is, of course, that of 6 January 2021 when a group of Trump-assisted troublemakers stormed Capitol Hill to contest the election result and Joe Biden's victory.

The Supreme Court's decision on Trump's eligibility will set a precedent for all the other pending cases in various states. So the stakes are high and Ms Anderson knows it as she is being interviewed by the Washington Post and the many journalists who have applied, from Germany to Japan. She, a copy of the Constitution in her purse and another on the dining room table, has an unassailable resume - a lifelong Republican, she was Colorado's congresswoman for 19 years and the first woman to lead both houses of the assembly when her party was in the majority.

A GOP member since her college days, she did not always follow strict party discipline, refused to vote for a bill banning same-sex marriages, and would not support a law requiring school children to recite patriotic verses of loyalty to the flag. She abruptly left the Senate in 2006, a year before the deadline, because in her opinion the party had started to take too much interest in people's private lives. She never voted for Trump, after a brief period when she left the party, she re-registered and is now registered as an independent. On 6 January 2021, she changed everything. "To see someone trying to overturn an election. I was shocked. I am old enough to have seen the Depression, World War II, two other wars, recessions, good times, bad times and many presidents but I never saw what happened on 6 January," says Ms Anderson. "If that's not an insurgency I don't know what is." Again, "Trump wanted to overturn the election and be the king. He wants to be like Putin, he wants to be in total control. Fortunately, the Vice President stood his ground on the Constitution. I admire Pence for that." She tells theColorado Sun that she is concerned about American democracy and that 'our vote is our democracy' and that is non-negotiable.

Another plaintiff, Krista Kafer, 53, a conservative pundit from Denver who has spent decades in the Republican party, considers Trump personally 'despicable' but voted for him in 2020 and agrees with his policies during his presidential years. But then there was the uprising on 6 January with the refusal to concede victory and his 'conspiracy theory full of lies and innuendo that endangered those who worked on the election, and then Congress, the members of Congress, their staffs and the police,' Ms Kafer, who has been insulted in various ways (Nazi, Communist, Satanist, Republican in name only), tells Reuters, and now fears for her safety and that of the other claimants. Who are a former Republican congressman from Rhode Island who now lives in Colorado, a teacher, a former deputy chief of staff to a Republican governor, a former executive director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County.