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14thAmendment, colorado, election, eligibility, gilead, insurrection, StatesRights, SupremeCourt, trump, USPoliticsSupreme Court rules states cannot remove Trump from ballot for insurrection The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states cannot disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol. In an unsigned opinion, a majority of the justices held that only Congress – and not the states – can enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was enacted in the wake of the Civil War to disqualify individuals from holding office who had previously served in the federal or state government before the war but then supported the Confederacy, against candidates for federal offices.
