The United States Supreme Court allows Trump to participate in the Colorado primaries

The United States Supreme Court on Monday declared unconstitutional the expulsion of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) from the Republican primary in Colorado, a ruling that paves the way for his election as his party’s presidential candidate.

The Supreme Court’s decision, which was announced on the eve of ‘Super Tuesday’, a key date on the road to the White House, could also affect similar complaints filed by America’s states. Maine and Illinois.

The justices of the conservative-majority Supreme Court argue that under the Constitution it is the responsibility of Congress, not the states, to enforce the laws. Section 3 of the 14th Amendmentwhich was used by the Colorado Supreme Court to rule against Trump.

Specifically, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump engaged in attempted “insurrection,” disqualifying him from holding public office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

This amendment, adopted in 1868 After the Civil War in the United States, the goal was to prevent the rebellious Southerners of the Confederacy, who had sworn allegiance to the Constitution and then betrayed it, from gaining power.

Although the justices cited different reasons, the decision is unanimous and marks the Supreme Court’s most direct intervention in elections since the decision. Bush v. bloodwhich resolved a dispute over votes in Florida and ultimately delivered victory for George W. Bush, who served as president from 2001 to 2009.

On February 8, the Supreme Court justices held a hearing to hear the parties’ arguments on the Colorado case, and even then they were cagey about the implications that Trump’s expulsion from the Colorado primary could have nationally . the November elections.

Both the most progressive and the most conservative justices have expressed their opinions discomfort during his interventions with the idea that individual states interpret the constitutional fitness of a candidate for national office.

The judges therefore responded to pressure from the tight election calendar and requests from the Republican Party of Colorado, which had asked them to take action before ‘Super Tuesday’ and in which fifteen states are holding primaries, including Colorado.

In an unprecedented ruling, the Colorado Justice Department ruled in December that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution disqualifies the Republican from the “insurrection” of the attack on the Capitol, when a horde of Trumpists attacked Congress in an attempt to block the ratification of Biden’s Constitution to stop. victory.

Under the same argument, Maine election authorities also expelled Trump from the primary, and Illinois did the same last week.