Supreme Court rules Trump cannot be kicked off Colorado ballot

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79. *Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson -- expressed frustration

at what they said was the majority’s needless overreach. “Although federal enforcement of Section 3 is in no way at issue,” they wrote, “the majority announces novel rules for how that enforcement must operate. It reaches out to decide Section 3 questions not before us, and to foreclose future efforts to disqualify a presidential candidate under that provision. In a sensitive case crying out for judicial restraint, it abandons that course.”

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in a brief concurring opinion, agreed that the majority had gone too far, saying that it should not have addressed “the complicated question whether federal legislation is the exclusive vehicle through which Section 3 can be enforced.” But she urged the public to focus on common ground. “For present purposes," she wrote, “our differences are far less important than our unanimity: All nine justices agree on the outcome of this case. That is the message Americans should take home.'>>>

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