Forget the Supreme Court, Beat Trump at the Ballot

The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, ruled today that former President Donald Trump can appear on the ballot in Colorado for the upcoming presidential election.

The decision came after six Colorado voters filed a lawsuit against Trump and the Colorado secretary of state, arguing that when Trump on Jan. 6 led an insurrection to breach the Capitol as Congress certified the 2020 election results, he was constitutionally ineligible to serve as president again because of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Section 3, in summation, states that an elected official—or a judicial or executive officer—can not have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the nation. And Congress, by a two-thirds vote in each chamber, can remove this obstacle from allowing them to serve.