Live Updates: Trump Prevails in Supreme Court Challenge to His Eligibility
Live Updates: Trump Prevails in Supreme Court Challenge to His Eligibility
The justices ruled that the 14th Amendment did not allow states to bar the former president from the ballot. The justices gave different reasons, but the decision was unanimous.
The justices ruled that the 14th Amendment did not allow Colorado to bar the former president from the state’s primary ballot. The justices offered different reasons, but the decision was unanimous.
I'm honestly flabbergasted by the people, including the justices, who make the argument that Colorado betting allowed to disqualify Trump would lead to a landslide of other states disqualifying other people for partisan reasons.
He was being disqualified for aiding an insurrection! If that would apply to any other candidate, then yes, disqualify them too! That's the fucking point!
The part that’s troublesome is the “giving comfort of aid to the enemy”. Florida was in the process of crafting such an argument to the Florida Supreme Court which, given their friendliness to the current governor, would have removed Biden from Florida. I’m sure Texas would have had something similar related to give aid and lax border policies (at least lax in their eyes).
Without a higher power specifically defining what rises to disqualification status, each State would get to set the bar and lots of States would have set that bar super low.
I mean hell, given Alabama’s Supreme Court recently used the Bible for justification in a ruling. Biden giving aid an comfort to the devil doesn’t seem far fetched for disqualification.
No. This is absolutely something we don’t want States to start getting creative about. If Trump violated Federal law, which we’ve got a Federal law the pretty much says Trump should be disqualified, then it’s the Federal Courts that need to rule that, which the Supreme Court indicated that yeah if Trump is guilty under 18 USC 2383, then he can’t be President.
States being allowed to interpret giving aid to the enemy is very dangerous door to open.
The argument is that only federal court can do that, not state court. Which means there souls be a federal case to do so. Why there is no such case? Or is there one?
I've lost all faith in the supreme court, it is totally corrupted by Trump. I used to look up to it as an institution that would protect us. Now it's a tool for Christofascist oppression. The 14th amendment must be upheld at the federal level if it can't be enforced at the state level.
Though the justices offered different reasons, the decision was unanimous.
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[…] The provision was adopted after the Civil War to forbid those who had taken an oath “to support the Constitution of the United States” from holding office if they then “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
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The case, Trump v. Anderson, No. 23-719, is not the only one concerning Mr. Trump on the Supreme Court’s docket. The justices said last week they would decide whether he was immune from prosecution for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, delaying trial proceedings in his criminal case as they consider the matter. And the justices already agreed to decide on the scope of a central charge in the federal election-interference case against Mr. Trump, with a ruling by June.
There you have it - a unanimous ruling, though the three liberal justices had a different logic than the six conservative ones.
The only way Americans will be rid of Trump is by voting for Biden in November.
yeah this ruling was a rare good one. The states can't enforce the federal constitution. Now it would be more interesting if the state itself had a constitutional section being used.
Unfortunately, it really wasn't. They unanimously agreed that the Colorado Supreme Court was overstepping its authority, in that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has to be executed at the federal level for federal officers. While I'm not particularly happy with this result, I understand their reasoning, and I think it's as fair a ruling as they could have made. Four of the justices wanted to stop here, however, but the more conservative justices did not -- which is what makes this ruling problematic. Basically the other 5 justices ignored the plain-text of the amendment to assert their preferred outcome, which was basically to invalidate Section 3 in its entirety. (They argued that congressional action was necessary to clarify how Section 3 works, which is, IMO, absurd -- especially given how they're quite willing to invoke the plain-text meaning of other sections of the Constitution when it conforms more to their liking.) With this judgement, they're basically saying that it doesn't matter if Trump committed insurrection or not, it will take an act of Congress to so define it and invalidate his ability to be President.
Or someone shoots him while standing in the middle of 5th Ave and gets away with it like he claims he could do.
Trump didn't prevail, Federal authority prevailed.. where are all my State's Rights guys now..
I wouldn't say federal authority prevailed either, because they essentially neutered the entire clause by denying that it's self executing (like age or being a natural born citizen). That means even if someone is convicted of an insurectionist act, the federal courts can't touch it, only Congress can. It's a dumb decision.
@CoffeeAddict wow that's huge news!