Republicans are celebrating the Supreme Court's decision today that Donald Trump can stay on states' 2024 ballots while slamming liberals for their 'idiotic' attempt to keep him off.
Republicans are celebrating the Supreme Court's decision today that Donald Trump can stay on states' 2024 ballots while slamming liberals for their 'idiotic' attempt to keep him off.
The court ruled in a unanimous 9-0 decision Monday that Trump should remain on Colorado's presidential ballot, reversing a ruling last year by the state's Supreme Court which kicked Trump off over January 6 'insurrection' charges.
'States may not unilaterally disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot,' the judgment read. The decision handed Trump a major victory as he prepares for a likely rematch with President Joe Biden in the November general election.
Colorado's shock decision had baffled legal analysts and shocked Republicans, threatening to derail the Republican Party's leading candidate with under a year left until the presidential election.
Similar efforts to boot Trump off the ballot - including in Maine and Illinois - will now be shut down with the high court's decision.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., cheered the outcome Monday, saying 'Trump-hating liberal judges' failed in their attempt to disqualify Trump.
Former President Donald Trump scored a victory Monday after the Supreme Court ruled that he may remain on the Colorado ballot after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled he could not
'The efforts by Colorado, Maine, and other states to disqualify him from the 2024 presidential ballot were politically-driven election interference,' said Sen. Graham
The Supreme Court's ruling Monday will likely have implications for other states which have sought to ban Trump from their ballots over January 6 related charges
'The Left’s hatred of President Trump is boundless,' he added.
'The efforts by Colorado, Maine, and other states to disqualify him from the 2024 presidential ballot were politically-driven election interference,' he continued.
'Today, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed what we all knew: the Colorado Supreme Court engaged in a purely partisan attack against the frontrunner for the Republican presidential primary,' House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a statement shared with DailyMail.com.
'States engaging in the same activist, undemocratic behaviors should take notice and leave it to the American people to decide who will be president,' Johnson continued.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., called the Colorado court's ruling, 'idiotic and unconstitutional.'
'Today, SCOTUS upheld our democratic process with its unanimous decision to oppose and reverse the radical Colorado Supreme Court's removal of Trump from the ballot,' Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., posted on X.
'It's a massive win for voters and historic loss for leftist activist judges,' he added.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., also celebrated the ruling.
'The Supreme Court is right to unanimously rebuke Colorado for trying to stop people from voting for President Trump. The Colorado court made its decision in bad faith, for political reasons,' he said in a statement. 'Protecting democracy means letting Americans vote for who they want.'
'Extreme Democrats will shred the Constitution in order to prevent the American people from exercising their constitutional right to vote for President Donald Trump,' Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., posted on X.
'We the people decide elections, not unelected radical leftists,' she continued.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., called the ruling 'a major win against the attempts of election interference by lawfare against Republicans.'
And it was not just Republicans celebrating, one of Trump and President Biden's political rivals, Democrat Robert Kennedy Jr., said the Supreme Court's ruling was 'the correct outcome.'
'I want to win a fair election — not one in which my competitors are removed through legal maneuvers,' Kennedy posted on X.
Activists protested outside of the Supreme Court Monday, likening Trump to Nazis and Hitler
Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson celebrated the court's unanimous ruling calling the case a 'purely partisan attack' against Trump
Today’s 9-0 Supreme Court decision needn’t be something to celebrate, it’s something we ought to once again take for granted: we the people decide who governs. The fact that it took the highest Court in the land to say it shows how far we’ve fallen. But it’s a good start in the…
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) March 4, 2024
— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) March 4, 2024Colorado's ruling was an unprecedented display of rank political partisanship at the hands of unelected officials.
It is the right of the American people to vote for the candidate of their choice without interference from radicals.
I am glad that the U.S. Supreme Court has… pic.twitter.com/8Za3dsBNDI
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) March 4, 2024My statement on the Supreme Court 9-0 ruling:
"Today's unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court decision is a victory for the American people, the Constitution, and our Republic. As I have said since the start, extreme Democrats will shred the Constitution in order to prevent the American…
Democrats, on the other hand, were not pleased with the court's unanimous ruling.
'The Supreme Court moved rapidly to clear Donald Trump to appear on the ballot,' Rep. Adam Schiff, D- Calif., posted on X.
'Will it move just as quickly to reject his false claims of immunity so he can appear in court? Or will justice delayed again be justice denied?'
Other liberals took to X to lament the decision, suggesting that the court should be 'dissolved.'
Democratic commentator Keith Olbermann said the court 'betrayed democracy.'
'Its members including Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor have proved themselves inept at reading comprehension,' he wrote on X.
'And collectively the "court" has shown itself to be corrupt and illegitimate. It must be dissolved.'