Supreme Court says Trump can appear on 2024 ballot, overturning Colorado ruling

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Trump has already won all but one of the Republican contests -- GOP opponent Nikki Haley notched a win in the District of Columbia's GOP primary -- and is expected to further cement his position as the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination after Super Tuesday.
56% : The Supreme Court's ruling is a rare courtroom win for Trump in his post-presidency legal woes that stretch from New York to Florida.
47% : "We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office.
47% : The state court put its decision on hold to allow Trump to appeal to the Supreme Court, and ballots listing his name were printed and mailed to voters ahead of Colorado's March 5 primary election.
45% : But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency," the court said in its opinion.
42% : Trump needed to convince a majority of the justices to rule for him on just one of those matters to prevail.
39% : But it is now clear that Trump led the January 6th insurrection, and it will be up to the American people to ensure accountability.
38% : The three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, issued an opinion concurring with the judgment, but said the court went too far in dictating "novel rules" for federal enforcement of Section 3.Trump cheered the decision, saying in a post to his social media site that it is a "BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!
36% : Particularly in this circumstance, writings on the court should turn the national temperature down, not up," wrote Barrett, who was appointed by Trump.
35% : "Noah Bookbinder, president of the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington President, which brought the challenge to Trump's eligibility, said the decision allowing Trump back on the ballot rests on "technical legal grounds.
35% : Efforts to knock Trump off the ballot were pursued in a number of states.
32% : "Reversal of the Colorado decision ensures that votes cast for Trump in the state's Republican presidential primary will be counted, and his name will appear on ballots nationwide unless Congress itself acts, which is unlikely.
32% : All parties -- Trump, the group of voters and Colorado secretary of state -- as well as legal scholars urged the justices to resolve the issue of his eligibility before most voters head to the polls for the 2024 election season.
32% : Trump has pleaded not guilty to all four counts stemming from his actions surrounding the last presidential election.
31% : "The Supreme Court removed an enforcement mechanism, and in letting Trump back on the ballot, they failed to meet the moment.
29% : ""The Supreme Court had the opportunity in this case to exonerate Trump, and they chose not to do so.
25% : In December, the Colorado Supreme Court determined that Trump was ineligible for the presidency due to his conduct surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
25% : On the heels of the Colorado ruling, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows issued a decision concluding that Trump is disqualified from holding the presidency.
23% : The Supreme Court is also poised to hear arguments in April in a case challenging the reach of a federal obstruction law that has been used to prosecute scores of defendants in connection to the Capitol attack, and which Trump is accused by the special counsel of violating.
21% : "The Supreme Court's ruling caps a period of uncertainty that followed the Colorado Supreme Court's historic conclusion that Trump was ineligible for a second term under Section 3 and should be excluded from the state's primary ballot.
20% : The justices are poised to decide whether Trump can be criminally prosecuted for conduct that allegedly involved official acts while in the White House, with arguments set for late April and a ruling expected by the end of June.
20% : The issue of whether Trump is shielded from criminal charges arose out of special counsel Jack Smith's case involving the former president's alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
17% : Every court -- or decision-making body -- that has substantively examined the issue has determined that January 6th was an insurrection and that Donald Trump incited it.
6% : An Illinois judge in late February, too, determined Trump is ineligible for office under Section 3 and should be removed from the state's primary ballot, but paused the decision so Trump can appeal, which he did last week.

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