What to know about the lawyers arguing the Trump ballot case at Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Thursday as former President Trump’s lawyers appear before the justices in an attempt to knock down lawsuits challenging the Republican front-runner’s ballot eligibility under the 14th Amendment.

The justices will hear from three attorneys during the argument. In order, they are:

Jonathan Mitchell, representing former President Trump.

Thursday is Mitchell’s sixth Supreme Court argument, according to Oyez, a website that archives Supreme Court material.

A former clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, Mitchell previously served as Texas’s solicitor general and is viewed as the architect of Texas’s controversial abortion law, S.B. 8.

Mitchell is a major figure in the anti-abortion movement. Besides writing S.B. 8, he also wrote the abortion travel bans that have been adopted by counties and cities around the country.

He’s advised other states on anti-abortion laws, and sued Texas abortion funds to get a list of women who received support to get abortions out of state.

Jason Murray, representing the plaintiffs.

Murray, a partner at Olson Grimsley, is set to make his Supreme Court argument debut Thursday, representing six Colorado voters who challenged Trump’s ballot eligibility in the state.

Murray was previously a law clerk for liberal Justice Elena Kagan, and he also clerked for conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch when Gorsuch served on a federal appeals court.

Shannon Stevenson, representing the Colorado secretary of state.

Stevenson, Colorado’s solicitor general, is also set to make her Supreme Court debut.

She previously worked in private practice at Davis Graham & Stubbs.

Nathaniel Weixel contributed.