Current Events > Supreme Court Rules Trump Cannot Be Kicked Off Ballot

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-trump-cannot-kicked-colorado-ballot-rcna132291?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

In an unsigned ruling with no dissents, the courtreversed the Colorado Supreme Court, which had determined that Trump could not serve again as president under Section 3 of the Constitution's 14th Amendment.

The provision prohibits those who previously held government positions but later engaged in insurrection from running for various offices.

The court said the Colorado Supreme Court had wrongly assumed that states can determine whether a presidential candidate or other candidate for federal office is ineligible.

Welp

Anti-Trump people should be ecstatic about this but they're not seeing the bigger picture. It shouldn't be the state's job to decide whether candidates can run on a ballot as they're much too centralized in power. This is going to prevent some rogue swing state from being able to frustrate a candidate's chances to appear on the ballot in the future.

Billyionaire posted...

Anti-Trump people should be ecstatic about this but they're not seeing the bigger picture. It shouldn't be the state's job to decide whether candidates can run on a ballot as they're much too centralized in power. This is going to prevent some rogue swing state from being able to frustrate a candidate's chances to appear on the ballot in the future.

Agreed. Sooner or later the precedent would undoubtedly screw over a dem candidate