Trump Reacts As Supreme Court Declares Him Eligible To Contest Presidential Election

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that former President Donald Trump can run for the next presidential election.

A group of Colorado voters had contended that Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits Trump, who seeks the presidential nomination of the Republican Party in this year’s election, from becoming president again over his fuelling of insurrection during the previous election.

The Colorado Supreme Court had agreed with that contention and ordered the Colorado secretary of state to exclude the former president from the Republican primary ballot in the State and to disregard any write-in votes that Colorado voters might cast for him.

But the legal team of Trump challenged the decision on several grounds, insisting that the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the states, responsible for barring election defaulters.

In a unanimous decision of the apex court, it reversed the initial lower court ruling.

“The contrary conclusion that a handful of officials in a few States could decide the Nation’s next President would be especially surprising with respect to Section 3. Section 3 marked the first time the Constitution placed substantive limits on a State’s authority to choose its own officials,” the court ruled.

Reacting to the judgement, Trump described it as a “big win” for America.