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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 case against Donald Trump in Colorado was brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), an ethics watchdog organisation that considers itself non-partisan. Sam Cabral
In an email to supporters, CREW President Noah Bookbinder takes solace in the ruling because "while the Court stopped short of removing Trump from US reporter
the ballot, they did not exonerate Donald Trump for inciting insurrection". This morning's ruling was made in what is known as a "per curiam opinion", meaning that it does not specify who wrote the opinion.
"The Court had the opportunity to clear Trump of the The reliance on per curiam "means that [the opinion] carries less weight", University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias argues.
finding that he incited insurrection, and the Court chose not to. Instead it "The concurrences by four justices reveal more about the Court’s thinking" and the internal dissent that comprises this unanimous decision, he says.
simply ruled that states do not have the power to enforce Section 3 of the 14th Tobias notes that the liberal justices expressly state that the
Amendment unless Congress says they can," he goes on. “majority goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can
Bookbinder says it is "disappointing" that the court faced a big test and "failed to meet the moment". bar an oath-breaking insurrectionist from becoming President [and] protest the
"They let Trump off the hook on a technicality," he writes, joining a list of institutions that has "failed to step up and use the tools our Constitution majority’s effort to use this case to define the limits of federal enforcement
provides to protect us" from imminent threats to democracy. of that provision".
"But in this Because three concurring Justices “would decide only the issue
ruling, there is a win for our democracy: Trump will go down in history as an before us, [they] concur only in the judgment".
insurrectionist."
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