Jon Queally is managing editor of Common Dreams.
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump a resounding legal victory on Monday by rejecting a push by Colorado voters to have him disqualified from the state's ballot under a clause of the 14th Amendment on the grounds that the former president was guilty of insurrection due to his actions leading up to and on January 6, 2021.
'Legal experts said the ruling did not hinge on the question of whether or not Trump was, in fact, guilty of insurrection but only that Colorado was not qualified to invoke the 14th Amendment.'Yes, the Supreme Court ruled for Trump based on only Congress having the power to enforce the 14th amendment,' said Norm Eisen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and an outspoken Trump critic. 'But just as important as what they did is what they didn't do.
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