The US Supreme Court has invalidated state attempts to apply a constitutional provision against insurrection to bar Donald Trump from seeking the presidency. The majority decision applies just to Colorado, but it also supersedes appeals from other states.
Trump was disqualified from Colorado’s Republican primary on the grounds that he instigated the Capitol riot of 2021. The court decided that the states do not have that authority; only Congress does. The ruling by the highest court permits Mr. Trump to participate in the Tuesday Colorado primary.
As the front-runner for the Republican nomination, Mr. Trump is probably going to face Democratic President Joe Biden again in the general election in November.
Following the verdict on Monday, the former president declared victory right away, calling it a “big win for America” on his Truth Social media platform. An email soliciting donations was then forwarded to his campaign’s supporters after the message. Not long after, he made the “very well crafted” statement that the choice will “go a long way towards bringing our country together, which it needs” from his estate in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
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“You can’t take someone out of a race because an opponent would like it that way,” Trump said. Jena Griswold, the secretary of state for Colorado, expressed her disappointment with the decision, saying that “Colorado should be able to bar oath-breaking insurrections from our ballot”.
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Furthermore, in a statement, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), the watchdog organization that initiated the action in Colorado, stated that even though the court “failed to meet the moment,” it is “still a win for democracy: Trump will go down in history as an insurrectionist.”