US Supreme Court rejects Donald Trump ballot challenge in Colorado, blocking state efforts to keep him out of election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : The court put that ruling on hold while Trump appealed it, so his name was printed on ballots for the state's March 5 primary.
37% : Jonathan F. Mitchell, Trump's lawyer before the U.S. Supreme Court, also cited a pending case in which Trump has argued he has presidential immunity and couldn't be prosecuted for anything he did on Jan. 6, 2021, regardless.
35% : Trumps' words riled up the mob that later stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the plaintiffs argued, and he took too little action to calm the riot - meeting the criteria for engaging in insurrectionThe Colorado Supreme Court agreed in a December ruling, finding 4-3 that Trump was ineligible to appear on the state's Republican presidential primary ballot.
27% : "Trump's legal team and other opponents of barring him from the ballot quickly launched a defense based on what they characterized as vagaries of the insurrection clause: Is the presidency, which is not specified in the amendment's text, an office under the United States, and does the restriction cover someone who took the presidential oath of office, which does not include the word "support"?Trump's legal team called the Jan. 6 riot "shameful, criminal (and) violent," but they didn't concede that it was an insurrection - or that Trump engaged in any insurrection.
24% : Donald Trump can remain on Colorado's ballot ahead of the Tuesday primary, the U.S. Supreme court ruled Monday morning, overturning a Colorado Supreme Court decision that had found the former president ineligible.
20% : The case was filed by a group of unaffiliated and Republican Colorado voters who argued Trump was ineligible for office under the Civil War-era amendment to the Constitution.
18% : And Donald Trump was the instigator of that - no one else.

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