All righty, folks, so big win for Donald Trump at the Supreme Court today. The Supreme Court

rules nine to nothing unanimous court that you can't just toss Donald Trump off a ballot for

the presidency of the United States in a state like Colorado. You will recall that just a couple of

months ago, the Supreme Court in Colorado decided that it was perfectly acceptable to invalidate Donald

Trump on the ballot in Colorado in the primaries and the general because he was, quote, unquote, an insurrectionist.

The basic premise of their argument was really stupid.

It was that because the Constitution of the United States bars from office insurrectionists, this means that the state government of Colorado can simply declare Trump an insurrectionist and then toss him off the ballot.

That had a bunch of legal problems with it.

Problem number one, how do you define insurrectionist?

Problem number two, even if you were going to define insurrectionists, that would theoretically have to be done at the federal level, not the state level, because it's a federal piece of legislation.

Problem number three, how do you even define it in terms of which party defines it

in the federal government? Is that done by some sort of elections board? Is it done by the legislature?

How does it distinguish itself, the insurrectionist clause, from, say, issues with age? Because

the state could theoretically throw someone off the ballot if they were not, say, 35 years old and

running for president. They could say this person is not eligible. They don't get listed on the ballot, but that would be pretty obvious from the federal language. That person is not allowed. Insurrectionist is a vague term of art. Bottom line is, the court rules nine nothing in favor of Donald Trump. He has to be put back on the ballot in Colorado. There is some minor controversy between the justices over exactly how in the future

these sorts of issues are going to be adjudicated. But again, the big takeaway is that 9-0

including all the Democratic appointed justices, they say the Colorado state Supreme Court

cannot simply declare that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist and therefore he can't be

on the ballot. According to the court,

proposed by Congress in 1866 and ratified by the states in 1868, the 14th Amendment,

which is the section of the Constitution that has the insurrectionist clause,

expanded federal power at the expense of state autonomy and thus fundamentally altered the balance of state and federal power struck by the Constitution.

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