USA, Supreme Court to decide on Trump's eligibility. Biden: he is a threat to the country
The incumbent president against the tycoon's return to the scene: democracy at risk, with the assaults on Capitol Hill America 'almost lost itself'
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The US Supreme Court said it will take on a 'landmark' case to determine whether Donald Trump can run for president in 2024. The justices decided to hear the tycoon's appeal against Colorado's decision to remove him from the 2024 ballot in that state.
The dispute will be heard in February and the ruling will apply on a federal scale. Lawsuits filed in several states aim to disqualify Trump, claiming that he participated in an insurrection during the so-called Capitol Hill events: his supporters' assault on the Capitol three years ago. The lawsuits are about how - and whether - a Civil War-era constitutional amendment makes Trump ineligible as a candidate.
Voting for the "survival of democracy"
.Donald Trump's run for a second term in the White House poses a 'serious threat' to the country. This was stated by US President-in-Office Joe Biden on the eve of the third anniversary of the storming of Capitol Hill: the Capitol Hill uprising ordered by supporters of the tycoon, now running for the 2024 presidential election.
Speaking near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Biden declared that 6 January 2021 marked a moment when 'we almost lost America, we lost everything'. The White House race itself, Biden stressed, is 'all about' the survival of American democracy and the unknown of a return to the scene of an increasingly hegemonic Trump in the Republican ranks.
The speech, the first political speech in the year of the vote, accentuates the weight of the polls next November and the polarisation expected in the US. Biden, who re-entered politics because he felt he was best placed to defeat Trump in 2020, considers the 'defence of democracy' strand to be the most sensitive ahead of the election clash.
