The Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a case determining whether former president Donald Trump’s name can appear on primary ballots in 2024. As the court weighs his eligibility to appear on the ballot, it also contends with a politically fraught question: whether Trump engaged in insurrection before and during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

Colorado, the first state to use a post-Civil War 14th Amendment provision that bars insurrectionists from holding office, found the current GOP front-runner ineligible to serve as president. Trump faces 91 charges across four cases, two of which deal directly with his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Libby Casey anchors live coverage from The Washington Post newsroom with analysis from James Hohmann, Rhonda Colvin and Georgetown constitutional law expert Michele Goodwin. Patrick Marley and Perry Stein provide reporting, and Jorge Ribas is live from outside the Supreme Court. Read more: https://wapo.st/3weMfpP. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK

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