by Techno Fog at The Reactionary
This morning, the Supreme Court rejected efforts to exclude Donald Trump from presidential primary ballots.
In December 2023, the Colorado Supreme Court removed President Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot – a historic first for any state. Judges in Maine and Illinois soon followed Colorado’s lead. Leading up to the Supreme Court’s opinion, there were unresolved challenges to Trump’s candidacy in 14 other states. If even a few of the challenges had succeeded, Trump’s candidacy would have been in jeopardy, the GOP primaries would have been significantly altered, and a handful of judges would have tipped the 2024 election to the Democrat’s favor. It would have been chaos.
Thankfully, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the state-level attempt to influence the 2024 election. The theory to exclude Trump from the ballot was based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which states:
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.” (Emphasis added.)
A bit of background is necessary to explain the Supreme Court’s opinion…
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