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SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Trump
He will stay on the Colorado ballot
So, the Supreme Court ruled as expected, allowing Trump to remain in the ballot in Colorado. If they had ruled against him, there would have been a Constitutional crisis and blood in the streets. SCOTUS really had no other choice.
Fortunately for them, the Constitution itself gives them an out. Section 5 of the 14th Amendment says:
“The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
You know that even before they agreed to take this case, they were parsing the Constitution for something that would allow them to wash their hands of the issue. And they found it in section 5. If they hadn’t found anything my guess is that they would have found something on which to base tortured reasoning on why Trump should remain on the ballot.
They didn’t dare rule in favor of Colorado. That would have resulted in a patchwork of states, some with Trump on the ballot and some without. There’s no way that an election could have been run with different candidates on different ballots. Trump had to be on all the ballots or none of them.
I’m not a Constitutional scholar, so I’m not going to get into whether or not individual states can rule on provisions of the Constitution…
