The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Donald Trump cannot be excluded from the ballot in the presidential election. This means there is one less hurdle to Trump's chances of becoming a presidential candidate.
In December, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump should not participate in that state's primary elections because of his role in the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Many see the former president as one of the instigators. The same conclusion was reached shortly thereafter in a few other states.
Trump appealed the Colorado ruling to the Supreme Court. The highest US court had to determine whether the state ruling was valid.
The state of Colorado based its decision on a clause in its constitution. Part of the Fourteenth Amendment states that Americans who have engaged in “rebellion or rebellion” can no longer hold political office.
The court unanimously decided Monday that Colorado had no control over this provision of the law at all, but that it rested with Congress. That's why the court found that the state made an error by removing Trump from the ballot.
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that Trump can remain on the ballot, that's just one hurdle for the former president. The only thing that could stand in the way of his presidential run is the criminal cases that are still pending against him. If convicted before the presidential election in November, he will be barred from running again.
The US states of Maine and Illinois had removed Trump from the ballot, but this decision was suspended pending the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Colorado case.
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