US: Trump will now be able to contest presidential elections, ‘supreme’ relief given in Capitol violence case
The Supreme Court justices unanimously overturned a lower court’s decision that Trump was disqualified from holding public office under the 14th Amendment due to his alleged role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
US: Trump will now be able to contest presidential elections, ‘supreme’ relief given in Capitol violence case
The Supreme Court has given big relief to former US President Donald Trump. The court rejected efforts to hold former President Donald Trump accountable for the Capitol riots and now Trump’s name will appear on the primary ballot.
Let us tell you that a court had disqualified former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s Republican primary voting. The Supreme Court gave this decision a day before the Super Tuesday primaries.
Overturned the lower court’s decision
The justices unanimously overturned a lower court ruling that Trump was disqualified from holding public office under the 14th Amendment because of his alleged role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Supreme Court gave big relief
Colorado’s high court said in the first decision of its kind that the provision, Section 3, could be applied to Trump. Before this, no court had applied Section 3 on a presidential candidate. Trump’s name was removed from the ballots in Colorado, Maine and Illinois, but the Supreme Court’s decision on all three decisions was to come. Former President Trump’s lawyers argued that the January 6 riot was not an insurrection and even if it was, Trump had not joined the rioters.
