Cause of death: All nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to remove Donald Trump from the state's 2024 ballot for allegedly participating in an "Insurrection" on January 6, 2021.
The case brought against Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith in August 2023 for January 6 and his alleged attempts to "Overturn" the 2020 election remains on indefinite hold while the courts hash out whether a president can face criminal prosecution for his conduct in office.
The Supreme Court will hold oral arguments the week of April 22 to debate the unprecedented matter; every day that ticks away without a decision after that represents another delay in the Department of Justice's J6 trial against Trump, an event the special counsel's office and media openly admit must happen before the November election.
"Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse," the court wrote in a per curiam-meaning the full court agreed and the opinion was not authored by a particular justice-decision.
"The loudest sentence in today's opinion is the one that's not there. The Court had a chance to absolve Trump of having engaged in insurrection against the United States and declined to do that, which is a stunning statement by our nation's highest court," Protect Democracy founder and former Obama White House general counsel Ian Bassin posted.
"Frequent MSNBC legal analyst Neal Katyal claimed the absence of an answer to a question no one asked-the court noted in its opinion that Trump's petition for certiorari"raised a single question: 'Did the Colorado Supreme Court err in ordering President Trump excluded from the 2024 presidential primary ballot?'-meant Trump was guilty of Insurrectionor something.
With no resuscitative J6 criminal trial in the near future, that sentiment will stick no matter how hard the Katyals and Tribes of the world claim the court did not "Clear" Trump's name.
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