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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 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.
US reporter In an email to supporters, CREW President Noah Bookbinder takes solace in the ruling because "while the Court stopped short of removing Trump from
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. the ballot, they did not exonerate Donald Trump for inciting insurrection".
"Allowing Colorado to do so "The Court had the opportunity to clear Trump of the
would, we agree, create a chaotic state-by-state patchwork, finding that he incited insurrection, and the Court chose not to. Instead it
at odds with our Nation’s federalism principles. That is simply ruled that states do not have the power to enforce Section 3 of the 14th
enough to resolve this case." Amendment unless Congress says they can," he goes on.
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". Bookbinder says it is "disappointing" that the court faced a big test and "failed to meet the moment".
"In doing so, the majority shuts the door on other potential means of enforcement," they write. "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
"We cannot join an provides to protect us" from imminent threats to democracy.
opinion that decides momentous and difficult issues unnecessarily, and we therefore concur only in the judgment." "But in this
ruling, there is a win for our democracy: Trump will go down in history as an
insurrectionist."
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