US Supreme Court upholds Trump’s eligibility for voting and rejects attempt to exclude him due to Capitol riot

On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump to return to the 2024 presidential primary.

votes, thwarting state efforts to prosecute the former Republican president over the Capitol violence.

One day before to the Super Tuesday primaries, the Supreme Court decided that states could not use a post-Civil War constitutional clause to prevent presidential contenders from running for office. In an unsigned ruling, the court stated that Congress had such authority.

The result puts an end to campaigns in Colorado, Illinois, Maine, and other states to remove Trump, the front-runner for his party’s nomination, off the ballot due to his plans to avenge his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election, which culminated in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The 14th Amendment’s ban on former officials who “engaged in insurrection” was enacted during the Civil War, and Trump’s case was the first to reach the Supreme Court on the subject.

In a precedent-setting decision, the Colorado Supreme Court determined that Trump might be subject to the application of Section 3, finding that the President incited the assault on the Capitol. No court has before applied Section 3 to a candidate for president.

A verdict requiring Congress to act in order to apply Section 3 has alarmed some observers because it may spark a fresh debate over whether or not to utilize the clause to disqualify Trump in the event that he wins. Under one possibility, on January 6, 2025, a Democratic-controlled Congress would attempt to refuse certifying Trump’s victory. — AP

asserts that states cannot use a constitutional clause

A day before to the Super Tuesday primaries, the Supreme Court justices decided that states could not use a post-Civil War constitutional clause to prevent presidential candidates from running for office. In an unsigned ruling, the court stated that Congress had such authority.

Ex-CFO enters a guilty plea to perjury in the civil fraud case of the former PRZ.

The former chief financial officer of Donald Trump’s business, Allen Weisselberg, entered a guilty plea to lying on Monday in relation to evidence he provided in the former president’s civil fraud lawsuit.
Weisselberg, 76, entered a guilty plea to two charges and was given a five-month prison sentence. This would be Weisselberg’s second jail term after a 100-day stay in an unrelated tax fraud case last year.