'It's kind of scary': Coloradans react to Supreme Court's ruling in Trump's favor

Record ID: 1770035

  • Title: 'It's kind of scary': Coloradans react to Supreme Court's ruling in Trump's favor
  • Date: 5th March 2024
  • Summary: COLORADO, UNITED STATES (MARCH 4, 2024) (REUTERS) DRONE VIEW OF DENVER, COLORADO (MUTE) PEOPLE WALKING ON DOWNTOWN DENVER STREET THREE MURALS ON A WALL MURAL ON WALL THAT READS “I’M SO BORED WITH THE USA!!” (SOUNDBITE) (English) JAKE MADDUX, 43, WORKS AT A BREWERY, LIVES IN DENVER, SAYING: "Regarding the Supreme Court overruling of Colorado's Supreme Court decision, I thin
  • Embargoed: 19th March 2024 00:27
  • Keywords: Colorado Donald Trump Elections January 6 Supreme Court Voting
  • Location: DENVER, COLORADO, UNITED STATES
  • City: DENVER, COLORADO, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: North America,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA001539604032024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The U.S. Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a major victory on Monday (March 4), barring states from disqualifying candidates for federal office under a constitutional provision involving insurrection and reversing Colorado's exclusion of him from its ballot.
    The justices unanimously overturned a Dec. 19 decision by Colorado's top court to kick the former president off the state's Tuesday Republican primary ballot after finding that the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment disqualified him from again holding public office. The Colorado court had found that Trump took part in an insurrection for inciting and supporting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
    The justices determined that only Congress can enforce the constitutional provision against federal officeholders and candidates. But four of the nine justices, including the court's three liberal members, faulted the rest of the court for announcing rules limiting how the provision may be enforced in the future.
    Denver resident, Jake Maddux, 43, said he disagreed with the court's ruling.
    "When the Supreme Court advocates for state's rights in things like abortion, but won't accept the state's ruling when it comes to who they want on the ballot. They're free to interpret the Second Amendment any way that they care to, when it comes to the 14th amendment, they have a very specific ruling," he said.
    The ruling was issued on the eve of Super Tuesday, the day in the U.S. presidential primary cycle when the most states hold party nominating contests.
    (Production: Liliana Salgado)
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