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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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The case against Donald Trump in Colorado was brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), an ethics watchdog organisation that considers itself non-partisan. | |
In an email to supporters, CREW President Noah Bookbinder takes solace in the ruling because "while the Court stopped short of removing Trump from | |
the ballot, they did not exonerate Donald Trump for inciting insurrection". | |
"The Court had the opportunity to clear Trump of the | |
finding that he incited insurrection, and the Court chose not to. Instead it | |
simply ruled that states do not have the power to enforce Section 3 of the 14th | |
Amendment unless Congress says they can," he goes on. | |
Bookbinder says it is "disappointing" that the court faced a big test and "failed to meet the moment". | |
"They let Trump off the hook on a technicality," he writes, joining a list of institutions that has "failed to step up and use the tools our Constitution | |
provides to protect us" from imminent threats to democracy. | |
"But in this | |
ruling, there is a win for our democracy: Trump will go down in history as an | |
insurrectionist." | |
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