The Supreme Court handed down a 9-0 ruling Monday that states can’t kick former President Donald Trump off their ballots.
It’s heartening that Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the rest of the Supreme Court to unanimously rule that states can’t kick ex-President Donald Trump off their ballots via a ridiculous reading of the 14th Amendment.
It shows that whatever partisan divisions there may be on the court, it’s ruled by a fair reading of the law. And the law in this case was being abused.
Anything less than a 9-0 ruling would’ve given the left license to pretend it lost because its “conservative” majority was playing politics.
None of this is to excuse Trump’s behavior around the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot; it’s to say that it’s not up to state officials to decide, without any real due process, that he thereby “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” and so is disqualified from future office, as Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled in December.
