In Unanimous Decision, Supreme Court Rules Trump to Remain On Presidential Ballots

In Unanimous Decision, Supreme Court Rules Trump to Remain On Presidential Ballots

 

BY TYLER DURDEN


The US Supreme Court has ruled in a unanimous decision that former President Donald Trump will be allowed to remain on primary and general ballots in the 2024 US election, after several states removed the former president under the 14th Amendment.


The decision comes after several states - kicked off by the Colorado Supreme Court - ruled, Trump was disqualified from appearing on ballots, citing their interpretation of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment provision, which stipulates, candidates who engaged in an “insurrection or rebellion” against the United States - which Trump has not been charged with or convicted of - should be prevented from holding office.

Maine’s Democrat secretary of state made a similar decision days later, and a judge in Illinois recently issued a similar ruling to prevent his appearance on ballots, according to the Epoch Times.

This is the first time in US history, the US Supreme Court has considered section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

The decision comes after a Sunday announcement that the Court would come to a decision today.

And of course, the left is now trying to discredit the Supreme Court despite the fact that this was a unanimous decision.

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As the Epoch Times notes further, Trump's lawyers asked SCOTUS to reverse the Colorado court decision because only Congress can make a determination as who can become president.

The Colorado court’s decision was “the first time in the history of the United States, the judiciary has prevented voters from casting ballots for the leading major-party presidential candidate,” Trump's lawyers said, concluding that it “is not and cannot be correct.”

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After the ruling, President Trump wrote on social media that he is “not an insurrectionist,” adding that President Joe Biden is one.

He also noted, he told supporters to protest “peacefully and patriotically” during a rally on Jan. 6, 2021, before protesters and rioters entered the U.S. Capitol during the certification of electoral votes for the 2020 election, which forms the basis of the “insurrection” accusations against him.

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Justices for the Colorado Supreme Court had argued that they believed President Trump engaged in an insurrection because of his activity before and on Jan. 6, 2021, during the breach of the U.S. Capitol building.

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The former president, however, was never charged or convicted of insurrection.

He was charged (but not convicted) by a federal special counsel in connection with the 2020 election, but not for insurrection, rebellion, or related charges.

“President Trump asks us to hold that Section Three disqualifies every oath-breaking insurrectionist, except the most powerful one, and that it bars oath-breakers from virtually every office, both state and federal, except the highest one in the land,” the majority for the Colorado Supreme Court wrote in its 4–3 ruling.

“Both results are inconsistent with the plain language and history of Section Three.”

Oral Arguments

During oral arguments in front of the justices in early February, at least six of the justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts, who was nominated by President George W. Bush, appeared to be at least skeptical of some of the claims made by the lawyer representing several Colorado voters, who brought the lawsuit against the Republican front-runner.

“It’ll come down to just a handful of states that are going to decide the presidential election,” Chief Justice Roberts said, referring to the potential effect of the Colorado court’s ruling.

“That’s a pretty daunting consequence.”

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Justice Clarence Thomas asked the lawyer, Jason Murray, why there weren’t many examples of individual states’ disqualifying candidates under the 14th Amendment after the Civil War.

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“There were a plethora of confederates still around, there were any number of people who would continue to either run for state offices or national offices, so it would seem—that would suggest there would at least be a few examples of national candidates being disqualified,” Justice Thomas, a Bush appointee, said.

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Justice Elena Kagan, considered a member of the court’s liberal wing, asked the attorney why one state would have power to determine which candidates should be on the ballot for a nationwide election.

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“Why should a single state have the ability to make this determination not only for their own citizens but also for the nation?” she asked the attorney, adding the move would be “quite extraordinary.”

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It looks like self-serving Democrats were engaging in lawfare to illegally keep Trump off State ballots.

All that will backfire in November.

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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 5, 2024 at 4:24pm

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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 4, 2024 at 11:18am

Trump on the ballot.

Bellows must be on the chopping block. What an embarrassment is the shameless hack Bellows.

Separately:

Is this why we often have weak Republican candidates in Maine?

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