The Texas lawyer behind that state’s six-week abortion law that allowed private citizens to seek $10,000 bounties from violators has been hired by Donald Trump for his US Supreme Court bid to stay on the presidential ballot.

Jonathan Mitchell filed a letter Thursday with the high court saying he is representing Trump in his appeal of a Colorado ruling that disqualified him from the state’s primary ballot for attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 election — one of the most politically charged questions to reach the nine justices in decades.

The Austin-based lawyer has argued five cases before the high court, adding heft to Trump’s sprawling legal team just as the Colorado case has emerged as a major test of his eligibility to run for president in November’s election. The Supreme Court could decide as soon as later Friday whether to take up Trump’s appeal.

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