The Issue: The Supreme Court’s ruling keeping former President Donald Trump on the Colorado ballot.
The US Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, has overruled the Colorado Supreme Court’s attempt to remove former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s presidential primary ballot (“Supreme Victory for Don,” Mar. 5).
The court ruled, “The Constitution empowers Congress to prescribe how those determinations [under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment] should be made.”
In essence, the court declared that the state of Colorado had no legal standing to remove Trump from the ballot.
What the court did not address, however, is whether or not Trump engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6 in the first place.
That issue rages on and, as it was not addressed, Trump may still have a legal war on his hands.
Jack Kaufman
Naples, Fla.
What the Supreme Court has done has made me physically upset.
By taking up the erroneous idea that Trump is immune from ballot disqualification by the state of Colorado, the court tipped the scale in favor of the most corrupt president in America’s history.
Dale Cohen
Manhattan
Nine to none — that was a Supreme Court zap right between the eyes of conservative jurist Michael Luttig and liberal Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Tribe, both of whom publicly argued that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment could allow for Trump’s barring from the ballot in Colorado.
Those two self-righteous media ringleaders of that “state supremacy” legal charade let their hatred of Trump blind them to the bedrock American statement of “We the People.”
Now Luttig and Tribe have egg on their faces for engaging in this egg-headed election-interference ploy.
They can continue to sing their blues about it in the pages of The New York Times and Washington Post — both of which were previously delighted by this attempted perversion of our democracy.
James Hyland
Beechhurst
As much as Trump’s opponents wail and gnash their teeth that he is a threat to democracy, their various unhinged tactics to prevent his run for the White House are far more of a threat.
Thankfully, the high court decisively took care of one of those threats.
The court’s unanimous decision to prevent Trump’s removal from state electoral ballots sends a clear, unfiltered message to the Democrats: They need to beat him at the voting booth.
Peter Kelly
Hazlet, NJ
The court’s justices, both Republican and Democrat, justly reminded the banana-republic Democrats that the United States has a Constitution and that they must abide by the laws of the country.
Speaking of banana republics, the United States — which pretentiously claims to be the “beacon of democracy” — has the most undemocratic mess of a voting system.
No voter ID?
True, honest and democratic-minded citizens should ask UN observers to monitor the next US presidential election before President Biden attempts to stage a coup d’état.
Denis Bourget
Montréal, Canada
The court sent a deafening blow to the left.
Leftists stagger as they try to regain their feet.
They’re stunned.
Their heads are spinning.
They’re groping for the ropes to try and lift themselves up.
Are they down for the count?
Kevin Moriarty
San Luis Obispo, Calif.
It is nice to see that “Trump Derangement Syndrome” has yet to infiltrate our last bastion in defense of our constitution: the Supreme Court.
But make no mistake, these deranged idiots will not give up.
I’m fairly confident that various courts will either overturn Trump’s other ridiculous court cases or substantially mitigate the damages.
Nearly three-quarters of Americans think Biden is not up to the job, but many liberal morons will still vote for him.
While Trump may exaggerate and say cringe-worthy things, he still loves the United States.
And his previous policies worked.
Don Whitman
Cross River
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