in a massive win for President Trump just earlier today, the US Supreme Court decided

unanimously in his favor and they ruled that individual states cannot bar President Trump

from appearing on the ballot.

And this decision of theirs is extremely timely,

given the fact that tomorrow, which is Super Tuesday,

two of the states that have attempted to kick

President Trump of the ballot, namely Colorado

and Maine, will be holding the primary elections.

However, even though this ruling definitively concluded that states cannot kick Trump off

the ballot, well well that actually did not

stop the Trump disqualification effort. Instead, within hours of this ruling being

made public, the effort to get Trump kicked off the ballot simply morphed

going from the state level to the federal level,

all of course in the name of saving democracy.

And so let's go through the details of everything here together. To start with, the background of this particular case is that for the past year,

across the whole country you've had these lawsuits being

lobbied against President Trump in roughly 35 different states aiming to kick him off the ballot.

The details of the individual cases differ one from the next, but the basic gist of all of them is that since President Trump quote unquote engaged in an insurrection on January 6th, he should therefore be barred from ever holding office as per the 14th Amendment.

For general context, here's what the pertinent section of the 14th Amendment says.

This is section number three.

No person shall be a senator or representative in Congress or elector of President and Vice President or hold any office, civil or military under the United States or under any state who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress or as an

officer of the United States or as a member of any state legislature or as an

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