BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules On Trump Ballot Eligibility
On Monday morning, the Supreme Court ruled Colorado can not take Trump off the ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban.
In a unanimous 9-0 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled Trump is eligible to be on Colorado’s ballot and can not be taken off.
The Court ruled, “A singular state has no unilateral authority to enforce the 14th Amendment to disqualify federal candidates.”
In the unsigned opinion, the Supreme Court wrote, “Former President Trump challenges that decision on several grounds. Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse.”
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules President Trump can appear on all state ballots for the 2024 election
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) March 4, 2024
It was a unanimous decision
9-0 pic.twitter.com/21pBgkotOk
Here’s what AP reported:
The Supreme Court on Monday restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to hold the Republican former president accountable for the Capitol riot.
The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states, without action from Congress first, cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision to keep presidential candidates from appearing on ballots.
The outcome ends efforts in Colorado, Illinois, Maine and elsewhere to kick Trump, the front-runner for his party’s nomination, off the ballot because of his attempts to undo his loss in the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Trump’s case was the first at the Supreme Court dealing with a provision of the 14th Amendment that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office again.
Colorado’s Supreme Court, in a first-of-its-kind ruling, had decided that the provision, Section 3, could be applied to Trump, who that court found incited the Capitol attack. No court before had applied Section 3 to a presidential candidate.
ALL NINE Justices on the Supreme Court just ruled that states have NO RIGHT to remove Trump from the ballot.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 4, 2024
Never forget all the people who tried to strip away our right to vote: pic.twitter.com/s1jHlYbJ6W
Per KTLA:
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Colorado cannot disqualify former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban, a historic decision that preserves Trump’s ability to seek a second presidential term.
Monday’s unsigned decision effectively ends the long-shot efforts that aimed to prevent Trump from returning to the White House, handing a monumental legal victory to the former president on the eve of Super Tuesday, when he is poised to close in on clinching the Republican nomination.
Voters and advocacy groups had filed dozens of challenges to Trump’s ballot eligibility in states across the country, claiming his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack triggered his disqualification.
The high court instead sided with Trump by ruling a singular state has no unilateral authority to enforce the 14th Amendment to disqualify federal candidates.