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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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Sam Cabral | |
US reporter | |
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson - who represent the Supreme Court's liberal minority - agreed that Colorado or any other state cannot unilaterally keep Donald Trump off the ballot. | |
"Allowing Colorado to do so | |
would, we agree, create a chaotic state-by-state patchwork, | |
at odds with our Nation’s federalism principles. That is | |
enough to resolve this case." | |
But they argue that Tuesday's ruling seeks to "decide novel constitutional questions to insulate this Court and [Trump] from future controversy" by announcing "that a disqualification for insurrection can occur only when Congress enacts a particular kind of legislation". | |
"In doing so, the majority shuts the door on other potential means of enforcement," they write. | |
"We cannot join an | |
opinion that decides momentous and difficult issues unnecessarily, and we therefore concur only in the judgment." | |
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