Trumps thanks Supreme Court for unanimous decision to let him stay on Colorado ballot

Former U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court barring states from disqualifying candidates for federal office under a constitutional provision involving insurrection and reversing Colorado’s exclusion of him from its ballot. The justices handed Trump a major victory when they unanimously overturned a December 19 decision by Colorado’s top court to kick the former president off the state’s Tuesday Republican primary ballot after finding that the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment disqualified him from again holding public office. The Colorado court had found that Trump took part in an insurrection for inciting and supporting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. The 14th Amendment’s Section 3 bars from office any “officer of the United States“ who took an oath “to support the Constitution of the United States“ and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or