Unanimous decision:
The Supreme Court on Monday said Colorado can’t use an anti-insurrectionist provision of the Constitution to kick Donald Trump off the ballot, leaving it up to voters to decide whether the former president should be returned to the White House after trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
In a unanimous decision, the court reversed the Colorado Supreme Court’s December decision that Trump is disqualified from running for president by a Constitutional amendment enacted after the Civil War to keep insurrectionists from holding office.
In an unsigned opinion, the justices said the Constitution makes Congress, not the states, responsible for enforcing that provision of the Constitution.
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“We conclude that states may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office,” the justices said. “But states have no power under the constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency.”
In addition to Colorado, Maine’s secretary of state had also declared Trump ineligible, a decision that – like the one in Colorado − was put on hold until the Supreme Court weighed in. And a judge in Illinois likewise has said Trump should be removed from the state's ballot.
The Supreme Court on Monday said Colorado can’t use an anti-insurrectionist provision of the Constitution to kick Donald Trump off the ballot, leaving it up to voters to decide whether the former president should be returned to the White House after trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
In a unanimous decision, the court reversed the Colorado Supreme Court’s December decision that Trump is disqualified from running for president by a Constitutional amendment enacted after the Civil War to keep insurrectionists from holding office.
In an unsigned opinion, the justices said the Constitution makes Congress, not the states, responsible for enforcing that provision of the Constitution.
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Learn more“We conclude that states may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office,” the justices said. “But states have no power under the constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency.”
In addition to Colorado, Maine’s secretary of state had also declared Trump ineligible, a decision that – like the one in Colorado − was put on hold until the Supreme Court weighed in. And a judge in Illinois likewise has said Trump should be removed from the state's ballot.
Supreme Court keeps Trump on Colorado's presidential ballot
The Supreme Court said Colorado can't use an anti-insurrectionist provision of the Constitution to kick Trump off the 2024 presidential ballot.
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