WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Supreme Court on Monday offered Donald Trump an important victory in his bid to be re-elected president of the United States next November by overturning a ruling excluding him from the ballot in Colorado.
The judges of the Supreme Court in Washington overturned the decision rendered on December 19 by the highest court of Colorado excluding Donald Trump from the Republican Party primary in that state, organized on Tuesday.
“GREAT VICTORY FOR AMERICA!!!”, wrote Donald Trump on his social network just after the announcement of the Supreme Court decision.
The Colorado magistrates considered that the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution prevented the former American president from once again exercising public elective office. They accused him of his involvement in an insurrection for his role in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, by his supporters wishing to prevent Congress from validating his defeat against Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
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The Supreme Court justices said in their ruling that states cannot invoke the 14th Amendment when it comes to federal office, particularly the country’s presidency. According to them, only Congress can intervene in this case.
Donald Trump, who should, barring any surprises, be nominated again by the Republican Party for the presidential election next November, was excluded in the same way from the primaries in Maine and Illinois but these decisions were suspended pending the Supreme Court ruling on the situation in Colorado.
This decision by the Supreme Court is rendered on the eve of “Super Tuesday”, during which primaries are organized in many states.
(Written by Andrew Chung in New York and John Kruzel in Washington, French version Bertrand Boucey, edited by)
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