Analysis | 4 takeaways from the Supreme Court's ruling on Trump and 14th Amendment

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Shortly after the ruling was handed down, Trump quickly scheduled a news conference at Mar-a-Lago.
52% : "An evolving electoral map could dramatically change the behavior of voters, parties, and States across the country, in different ways and at different times," the ruling says.
52% : The three justices began their non-dissent dissent by quoting Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. When Roberts agreed with the court's judgment in Dobbs v. Jackson in 2022 but wanted to stop short of overturning Roe v. Wade, Roberts said, "If it is not necessary to decide more to dispose of a case, then it is necessary not to decide more.
51% : The overall judgment that Colorado could not disqualify Trump was unanimous.
42% : They said the five justices "decide novel constitutional questions to insulate this Court and petitioner" -- Trump -- "from future controversy.""By resolving these and other questions, the majority attempts to insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office," the three justices wrote.
40% : "What the 14th Amendment says about whether Trump can be on the ballot"Congress's Section 5 power is critical when it comes to Section 3," the ruling says.
38% : By not weighing in on whether Trump engaged in insurrection, that remains open to interpretation -- and specifically, Congress's.
37% : What if Trump won in November, for instance, but Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress and moved to disqualify him?
30% : Both a Colorado district court and the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump had engaged in insurrection, citing both his Jan. 6, 2021, speech that preceded the attack on the Capitol and his lack of immediate action when it began.
27% : The ruling provides precisely zero clarity on the underlying issue of whether Trump actually engaged in insurrection -- neither ruling that he did nor that he didn't, or even engaging in discussion about it.
25% : "The three liberal justices in Monday's Trump v. Anderson opinion wrote that the ruling "simply creates a special rule for the insurrection disability in Section 3."The ruling also invites Trump to continue arguing that liberal activists have gone too far in trying to take him down by whatever means necessary in the courts.
21% : They agreed that allowing Colorado to disqualify Trump would lead to "chaos," but they disagreed that congressional enforcement was "critical" to the 14th Amendment.
11% : "A judge in Illinois and Maine's secretary of state also found that Trump engaged in insurrection, and several other judges have come close to accusing Trump of that.
6% : The ruling in Trump v. Anderson reverses the Colorado Supreme Court's disqualification of Trump.

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