Unlike the unprecedented nature of the Supreme Court’s intervention in the pivotal Bush v. Gore election case 23 years ago, disputes arising from Trump’s criminal cases and various civil challenges were expected without a shred of doubt to come before the justices. The timetables for those inevitable petitions accelerated after the Colorado Supreme Court made history on Tuesday by becoming the first court to bar Trump from appearing on the state’s Republican primary ballot, finding he “engaged” in insurrection in violation of the 14th Amendment.