I've heard a couple of times this morning it's time to come together as a nation.

[Celerity]

120. The SCOTUS unanimously ruled that the individual States could not disqualify Trump under the 14th Amendment, that only

Congress could do so.

It did not, therefore your statement:

Trump is already disqualified from becoming President under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment

is false in terms of legal/political reality.

US: Supreme Court rules that disqualifying individual under 14th Amendment is for Congress in Trump ‘insurrection’ case

https://www.ibanet.org/US-Supreme-Court-rules-that-disqualifying-individual-under-14th-Amendment-is-for-Congress-in-Trump-insurrection-case

Friday 8 March 2024

The US Supreme Court has ruled that individual states don’t have authority to keep former President Donald Trump off the ballot in the 2024 presidential election. The Court said that the role of giving effect to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution – under which Trump had been disqualified from standing in Colorado – continues to lie with Congress.

The decision paves the way for the former President to stand for election in November despite four ongoing criminal cases pending against him and lingering concern over his role in the 6 January 2021 attack by his supporters on the US Capitol. The only other challenger left in the Republican presidential nomination field, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, resigned from the contest on 6 March.

In a rare unanimous decision, the nine Supreme Court justices ruled on 4 March that the state of Colorado didn’t have authority to prohibit Trump from standing for national office. A group of voters in Colorado had sought to disqualify Trump under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution because, they alleged, he had committed insurrection against the government he was sworn to serve.

‘This is one of those rare, unanimous opinions. And that’s in part because of the concern for there being a patchwork of disenfranchisement if they were to rule in favour of Colorado. There was probably also a little undercurrent of the need to show some unity and not divide on political lines,’ says Laura Prather, Scholarship Officer for the IBA North American Regional Forum and a partner at law firm Haynes Boone in Austin, Texas.

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