US Supreme Court rules Trump can’t be kicked off the ballot in Colorado

The U.S. Supreme Court has barred states from disqualifying candidates for federal office in a ruling handed down on Monday, overturning a decision by Colorado’s top court that would have excluded U.S. President Donald Trump from the ballot due to his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol building. The justices handed Trump a major victory when they unanimously overturned the Dec. 19 decision to kick Trump off the state’s Republican primary ballot. Trump applauded the ruling on Monday, saying “it will go along way toward bringing our country together” and suggested his political opponents had sought to remove him from the presidential race. The Colorado court had said the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment disqualified him from again holding public office. The 14th Amendment bars 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 co