Those who listened to the pleadings before the United States Supreme Court in the challenge to Colorado’s decision that Donald Trump cannot appear on that state’s ballot because of his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection in Washington, D.C., could have predicted that the justices would overturn Colorado’s ruling. What they could not anticipate is that the court would go beyond the case at hand to further undermine the Fourteenth Amendment by saying that its ban on insurrectionists holding office only applies if Congress decides to disqualify them. The ban is not self-executing, they ruled.
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