in a 9-0 unanimous decision, the scotus just ruled to keep trump on the colorado ballots. and apparently this extends to all states i'm surprised this whole thing made it that far. it was considered a hail mary and never supposed to go anywhere
In their decision, the US supreme court writes:
We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency
basically they were also even saying that congress should be in charge of enforcing who is disqualified. even though the states are in charge of their own elections. make that make sense. but i guess when you're dealing with presidency and other federal positions, somehow it's not supposed to be up to the states to actually enforce it.
it's really messy and they really bailed him out. but when it all comes down to it i believe this was probably the right thing to do. and an earlier comment from john roberts suggests they don't want this kind of shit to go on because it will likely lead to tit-for-tat disqualification filings between the two parties where they simply just try to disqualify the other candidate for any random partisan interests:
“What do you do with the, what would seem to be, the big, plain consequences of your position? If Colorado’s position is upheld, surely there will be disqualification proceedings on the other side and some of those will succeed,” the chief justice, John Roberts, asked Jason Murray, the lawyer who argued on behalf of the
Colorado voters.
“I would expect that a goodly number of states will say whoever the Democratic candidate is, you’re off the ballot, and others, for the Republican candidate, you’re off the ballot. It will come down to just a handful of states that are going to decide the presidential election. That’s a pretty daunting consequence,” Roberts added.