SCOTUS ends efforts to kick Trump off ballot in Minnesota

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Trump hailed the decision.
48% : Trump wrote in all-caps on his social media site.
46% : "In a statement, Free Speech For People said the Supreme Court had made a "mockery" of Section 3 and "encourages Trump -- and those who follow his example -- to engage in more insurrections.
42% : Still, there was a chance the U.S. Supreme Court would allow the Minnesota lawsuit to be revived if Colorado, which barred Trump from its ballot based on the former president's actions on Jan. 6, 2021, when protestors stormed the Capitol, prevailed at the Supreme Court.
41% : Last year, eight voters -- led by former Minnesota Secretary of State Joan Growe and the election reform group Free Speech for People -- filed a suit in the state to keep Trump off the presidential primary ballot.
32% : It also said the high court did not deny that Trump engaged in insurrection, only that states could not apply the insurrection clause.
29% : The voters argued that Trump had violated Section 3 of the 14 Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, known as the "insurrection clause," established after the Civil War to bar former Confederate officers from holding public office.
29% : But the Minnesota Supreme Court in November ruled they could not bar Trump from the state's primary ballot under the insurrection law because primaries are party-led events that do not result in the election of a public officer.
23% : The Supreme Court's unanimous decision that no state can disqualify a presidential candidate from national office destroyed any chance that Minnesota voters could prevail in an attempt to bar Donald Trump from running for president again in the state.

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