The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that former President Donald Trump should remain on state primary ballots, although a minority of the justices said the majority’s finding undercuts a provision of the Constitution meant to keep insurrectionists away from higher office.
Criticizing the part of the majority opinion that said a disqualification due to insurrection can only occur in cases in which Congress enacts a particular type of legislation, Democratic-appointed Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson said their view is that their Republican-appointed counterparts formed limits to what “the men who drafted and ratified the Fourteenth Amendment” sought out to do.
Associate Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan. (Fred Schilling/U.S. Supreme Court via AP) For a unanimous decision, a concurrence looks like a dissent
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