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US Supreme Court strikes down effort to disqualify Trump from Colorado primary election - BBC News US Supreme Court strikes down effort to disqualify Trump from Colorado primary election - BBC News
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The US Supreme Court has just struck down Colorado's move to bar Donald Trump from its presidential primary. Sam Cabral
Colorado’s top court removed the former president from its ballot in December, citing the 14th Amendment's ban on insurrectionists running for office. US reporter
But Supreme Court justices were sceptical of the move at a hearing on 8 February, and accused the state of overstepping its authority. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson - who represent the Supreme Court's liberal minority - agreed that Colorado or any other state cannot unilaterally keep Donald Trump off the ballot.
And today they decided Trump will remain on the ballot. "Allowing Colorado to do so
It means Trump can run in the primary tomorrow, a day on which he could all but seal the Republican nomination. would, we agree, create a chaotic state-by-state patchwork,
Colorado will vote alongside 15 other states in a marathon contest dubbed Super Tuesday. The 77-year-old is widely expected to sweep the board and defeat his sole remaining opponent, his former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. at odds with our Nation’s federalism principles. That is
Stay with us as we unpack this breaking news. enough to resolve this case."
But they argue that Tuesday's ruling seeks to "decide novel constitutional questions to insulate this Court and [Trump] from future controversy" by announcing "that a disqualification for insurrection can occur only when Congress enacts a particular kind of legislation".
"In doing so, the majority shuts the door on other potential means of enforcement," they write.
"We cannot join an
opinion that decides momentous and difficult issues unnecessarily, and we therefore concur only in the judgment."
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