US Supreme Court rejects Colorado ruling that excludes Trump from primary elections

The United States Supreme Court declared unconstitutional this Monday the expulsion of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) from the Republican primaries in Colorado, a decision that paves the way for his party’s presidential candidate to be elected.

According to media outlets such as the New York Times, CNN or CBS News, There is a “strong sign” he will decide on the Republican’s eligibility for the Colorado primary electionstate that initially vetoed the former president.

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He Supreme released a statement today stating that The decision will be published online from 10:00 local time (15:00 GMT) and that “the court will not take a position”.

The justices are not expected to return to the courtroom until March 15, the New York Times notes, so “the electoral calendar may have influenced” the court’s actions.

In fact, The Colorado Republican Party asked the highest court to act before ‘Super Tuesday’, which is celebrated on March 5 and in which 15 states hold primary elections, including Colorado.

On February 8, TS judges held a hearing to determine whether the expulsion of the trump of the Republican primaries in Colorado as his role in the attack on the Capitol in January 2021 is constitutional and therefore Trump is disqualified from returning to the White House.

At the hearing, the judges were reticent about the implications this could have at a national level for the November elections validate the state of Colorado’s decision to remove Trump.

Both the more progressive and more conservative justices suggested in their speeches discomfort with the idea of ​​individual states interpreting a candidate’s constitutional eligibility for national office.

Therefore, It is very likely that the judges will be in favor of not eliminating the presidentfavorite for the candidacy of Republican party after having won all the primary elections that have ever taken place in several states.

In an unprecedented decision, The Colorado Court ruled in December that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution disqualifies the Republican for the “insurrection” of the assault on the Capitolwhen a horde of Trumpists attacked Congress to try to prevent the ratification of Biden’s victory.

Under the same argument, Election officials in Maine also kicked Trump out of the primary, and Illinois followed suit last week.

All these decisions were appealed to the TS, whose decision on Colorado It will probably serve to set a precedent in other similar cases.

This now famous Section establishes that no “member of Congress or officer of the United States” who has sworn an oath to the Constitution and “participated in insurrection or rebellion” may be “elected President or Vice President,” among other public offices.

It was approved in 1868, after the Civil War, with the aim of preventing Southern Confederate rebels who betrayed the Magna Carta from returning to power.

Source: Elcomercio

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