Supreme Court Rules That Donald Trump Can Remain On Colorado Ballot, Rejecting Effort To Remove Him

Donald Trump cannot be removed from state ballots in the 2024 election, despite a clause in the Constitution that restricts those who have engaged in an insurrection from holding office, the Supreme Court ruled today.

The decision had been expected, after justices were skeptical of a Colorado Supreme Court decision that removed the former president from the ballot.

Under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment no person shall hold office “having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

Trump has been restricted from the ballot in Maine, where the secretary of state ruled him disqualified, and Illinois, where a judge last week ruled him ineligible. But those decisions are on hold as the Supreme Court weighs in.