The US Supreme Court has struck down efforts by individual states to disqualify Trump from running for president using an anti-insurrection constitutional clause
The unanimous ruling is specific to Colorado, but it also overrides challenges brought in other states
Colorado had barred Trump from its Republican primary, arguing he incited the 2021 Capitol riot but the court ruled that only Congress, rather than the states, had that power
Trump posted on social media to say the judgement was a “big win for America”
The former US president issued a press briefing at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida where he said the decision was “very well crafted” and will “go a long way towards bringing our country together, which it needs”
Colorado’s Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, said that she was disappointed by the ruling and that “Colorado should be able to bar oath-breaking insurrections from our ballot”
