The Supreme Court of the United States has issued a ruling that has delighted former President Donald Trump. The Supreme Court rejected Colorado’s decision to remove Trump from the ballot.
The Supreme Court ruled today that Trump must remain on the state’s ballot for the presidential election.
The ruling said a state could not use a constitutional provision enacted after the US Civil War to bar a presidential candidate from the ballot.
The court’s unsigned ruling pointed out that this power belongs to the US Congress.
With this decision, Trump will be on the ballots in Colorado and Maine in tomorrow’s primaries, known as “Super Tuesday”.
WHAT HAPPENED?
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on December 20 that former President Trump could not participate in the presidential race in this state on the grounds that he committed the crime of “insurrection and rebellion” in the January 6, 2021 Congressional raid.
The court had ruled that Trump’s actions during the Congressional raid amounted to the crimes of “insurrection and rebellion” and that these offenses fit the “ineligibility to hold federal office” as defined in Article 14, paragraph 3 of the Constitution.
For the first time in US history, the Constitution’s “rebellion and sedition” clause was used as a ground for disqualifying a presidential candidate from running.
Following Colorado, the states of Maine and Illinois made similar decisions based on the same constitutional provision.
Trump appealed Colorado’s decision to the Supreme Court on January 4.
