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‘Big Win!’ Trump celebrates as SCOTUS unanimously rules he can remain on ALL state ballots

March 4, 2024 | | Print Article

The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken: Colorado cannot kick former President Donald Trump off its primary ballot.

The unanimous decision, issued on Monday, effectively killed “critics’ legal efforts to disqualify Trump for being an ‘insurrectionist’ as justices ruled states can’t unilaterally remove him from the ballot,” Forbes reports.

As BizPac Review reported, in December, the Colorado Supreme Court cited the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban” and disqualified Trump from appearing on the state’s ballot in a 4-3 ruling.

Trump immediately appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court, and 27 states filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to reverse Colorado’s decision.

Since then, “lawsuits have proliferated across the country challenging [Trump’s] candidacy, with Maine and Illinois following,” Forbes reports, “but the court’s ruling Monday kills those cases, as justices unilaterally found that states cannot remove federal candidates from the ballot.”

In response to Colorado’s Supreme Court ruling, Trump took to Truth Social and called it “A SAD DAY IN AMERICA!!!”

On Monday, the GOP frontrunner was cheering.

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“BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!” he exclaimed on his social media platform.

“Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has never been used against a presidential candidate, and it’s only been deployed eight times since the 1860s,” NPR reports. “That sparse record contributed to the high court’s decision.”

“Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse,” the justices concluded.

Upholding the Colorado ruling would “create a chaotic state-by-state patchwork,” liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a concurring opinion, according to Forbes. The trio did, however, oppose “part of the majority’s opinion that said Congress has to pass a certain kind of legislation in order to disqualify office holders,” the outlet reports.

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“We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office,” the court wrote. “But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency.”

Forbes notes that 35 states saw lawsuits challenging Trump’s candidacy under the 14th Amendment.

“I think the question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the United States,” Justice Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, told Jason Murray, the lawyer for the voters, according to NPR.

“Chief Justice John Roberts said he could foresee, in the not-too-distant future, a world in which some states would try to boot the Democratic nominee from the ballot, and others would use Section 3 to do the same for the Republican candidate,” the outlet reports.

“It will come down to just a handful of states that are going to decide the presidential election,” Roberts said. “That’s a pretty daunting consequence.”

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Online, conservatives are celebrating the massive win and savoring the resulting liberal meltdowns.

Perpetually unhinged Keith Olbermann was so aghast over the rare display of Supreme Court unanimity that he called for the high court to be “dissolved” entirely.

It’s a “terrible day for anyone who hates democracy” Collin Rugg declared.

“COLORADO YOU DONE FUNKED UP,” stated Jack Posobiec.

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“This is a major win against the attempts of election interference by lawfare against Republicans,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).

Attorney Harmeet Dhillon, whose firm represented Trump in the ballot case, said she and her husband “were doing Trump victory dances in the kitchen this morning.”

“You don’t get to go to the Supreme Court with a cert. petition like this one very often in a career,” she wrote. “So thrilled.”


In a separate post, Dhillon congratulated Trump and her colleagues.

“The Supreme Court has unanimously struck down the political effort to kick Trump off the ballot,” stated Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio). “In America the people decide who the president is.

“A great ruling for our country and the rule of law!”

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