BREAKING NEWS
The Associated Press (“AP News”), and all major news outlets, are reporting that the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) has, in a unanimous decision, restored former President Donald J. Trump to the states’ 2024 presidential primary ballots.
The SCOTUS rejected attempts in Colorado, Illinois, and Maine to remove Trump from state ballots under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, in which the states asserted that Trump had engaged in an “insurrection” on or about January 6, 2021 and was, therefore, ineligible to run for office.
The SCOTUS opined that the authority to invoke the post-Civil War 14th Amendment provision preventing a person from holding public office rests with the U.S. Congress – not the states, stating that “…[s]tates have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 [of the Fourteenth Amendment] with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency.”
The AP News report may be read HERE.
FGGAM will provide update(s), if warranted.
A copy of today’s SCOTUS decision may be viewed or downloaded HERE.
Regardless of our individual political views, the fact that the SCOTUS decision was 9-0 (unanimous) is a very important development and should help to bring clarity and consistency in the ongoing primary elections and the upcoming general election in November. It should also provide for “cooler heads” to prevail and to temper some of the excessive angst and rhetoric in the press (on both sides of the aisle).
Praise Jesus forevermore!
