The US Supreme Court on Monday overturned a Colorado court’s decision to remove Donald Trump’s name from the ballot in the upcoming presidential election. This regulation has now taken effect throughout the United States. That is, individual states cannot prohibit candidates from running for federal office.
The Supreme Court overturned a ruling that a Colorado court issued late last year. Then he referred to the rarely used 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, adopted back in 1868. It prohibits anyone from holding a government position who has taken the oath and then participated in an uprising or rebellion.
At the time, a group of Colorado voters said Donald Trump’s efforts to avert his 2020 election defeat, which was sparked by the Jan. 6 Capitol incident, amounted to an insurrection.
Trump’s lawyers have rejected the sedition charges.
The Supreme Court did not consider whether Trump participated in the insurrection. It merely ruled that only Congress, not the states, could determine a candidate’s eligibility for election.
Trump called the decision a victory for America.
For now, Donald Trump remains the leader in the race for the Republican nomination. His only remaining challenger, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, has won only one vote so far, in the Washington, D.C., primary.
It’s worth noting that the US Supreme Court has yet to hear Trump’s appeal of the ruling that he does not have immunity in the 2020 case.
