Former President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters descended on the Supreme Court on Thursday to voice their opposition to legal efforts to remove him from the 2024 ballot.
Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Roger Marshall (R-KS), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) were among those who showed up to voice their support for the former president. The trio held an impromptu press conference on the steps of the court ahead of oral arguments in Trump’s appeal of a Colorado Supreme Court decision that removed him from the state’s primary ballot.
Tuberville, who organized the gathering of senators, called it “a historic day” for the country.
“We’re here today to stand up for democracy. I never thought I’d see this,” Tuberville told reporters. “We stand here for the right to vote and for our Constitution. This should not be a partisan issue. This is an American issue, what a thought, but our Democratic colleagues have made this very, very partisan.”
“Democrats like to talk about our democracy. They love it. They love to talk democracy,” he continued. “But Democrats are desperately trying to stop the American people from deciding who will be our next president.”
Blackburn, meanwhile, said that Republicans “fully believe that it is up to the American people to choose their president. It is not up to the state courts.”
“This is going to embolden the American people even more that they’re going to get out and vote,” Marshall said. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. This is going to make President Trump even stronger. This is going to motivate people to get out and vote for him. His poll numbers are going to go up tomorrow.”
A small group of counterprotesters with signs accusing Trump of being a criminal began standing behind Marshall as he concluded his remarks, though the individuals did not otherwise disrupt the event.
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The three were also among the 46 Republican senators who signed onto an amicus brief last month calling on the Supreme Court to keep Trump on the ballot.
More than two dozen amicus briefs have been filed to the public docket for the Supreme Court case over whether Trump, the Republican front-runner for the 2024 presidential election, is disqualified from appearing on the Centennial State’s primary ballot under a 14th Amendment provision barring anyone who engaged in insurrection from holding office again.
Kaelan Deese contributed to this report.
