Former President Donald Trump will remain on all 2024 presidential primary ballots following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling.
Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross told theGrio that this decision “was expected” and that the court did the right thing.
“If the court ruled any other way, what would have happened is patchwork,” she explained. “States would have decided maybe they would include Trump on the ballot, maybe they wouldn’t.”
On the other hand, she added that states would have had the authority “to decide whether to include President Joe Biden on the ballots as well.”
GianCarlo Canaparo, a senior legal fellow at the conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, said he “isn’t surprised” by the ruling.
“To remove Trump from the ballot by state bureaucrat or state judge would have been unconstitutional,” he said.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court published an opinion penned by Justice Amy Coney Barrett. It found that Colorado, Illinois, and Maine lack the power to remove the embattled former president from their 2024 presidential primary ballots under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
The constitutional amendment states that no individual should “hold any office, civil or military…who, having previously taken an oath…as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion.”
Barrett wrote that the 14th Amendment “on its face, does not affirmatively delegate such a power to the States.”
“The terms of the Amendment speak only to enforcement by Congress,” she added. “Granting the States that authority would invert the Fourteenth Amendment’s rebalancing of federal and state power.”
The Supreme Court decision comes nearly a month after the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court heard hours-long arguments in the Donald Trump v. Norma Anderson case to determine whether states…
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