Republicans celebrated the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to allow Donald Trump to remain on the election ballot in Colorado and reverse a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that disqualified him because of his role in the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n
The decision came on the eve of Super Tuesday, when 15 states, including Colorado, will hold Republican nominating contests. Almost immediately after the ruling was made public, Trump posted a brief, all-caps message on his social media site.<\/p>\n
\u201cBIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Moments later, he referred to the next question before the justices that could affect his electability \u2014 he has challenged a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that said he is not protected from criminal prosecution by presidential immunity. The Supreme Court\u2019s decision to take that case delayed Trump\u2019s federal election interference trial in D.C. until at least late summer, just a few months before the election. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case next month.<\/p>\n
In a radio interview shortly after Monday\u2019s ruling, Trump said it \u201cwill be of equal importance\u201d how the court rules on his sweeping claim of immunity from prosecution over actions taken while president.<\/p>\n
\u201cA president has to have immunity, or they won\u2019t be able to function,\u201d Trump told Boston radio host Howie Carr. \u201cThey\u2019ll be ceremonial. So I think that\u2019s a very important one coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Biden, the White House and his campaign have largely avoided commenting on the Colorado case. On Monday, Quentin Fulks, Biden\u2019s deputy campaign manager, told MSNBC\u2019s Jen Psaki that the Biden team is not particularly interested in the court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t really care. It\u2019s not been the way we\u2019ve been planning to beat Donald Trump,\u201d Fulks said. \u201cOur focus since Day 1 of launching this campaign has been to defeat Donald Trump at the ballot box. And everything we\u2019ve done since the president announced back in April that he\u2019s running for reelection is to build an infrastructure and apparatus to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, it wasn\u2019t only Trump celebrating the decision. Some people seen as potential Trump running mates jumped online to declare the ruling a win for their party\u2019s presumptive nominee.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe U.S. Supreme Court REJECTS Colorado\u2019s clearly political abuse of our democracy,\u201d Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) wrote on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cA unanimous, huge win for President Trump and our country against the anti-democratic radical left.,\u201d Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders wrote on X.<\/p>\n
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), chair of the House Republican conference, called the decision \u201ca victory for the American people.\u201d She accused those behind the efforts to kick Trump off Colorado\u2019s ballot \u2014 led by a former GOP legislator \u2014 of participating in a \u201cdangerous attempt by the radical Left to suppress votes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe the people decide elections, not unelected radical leftists,\u201d Stefanik said in a statement. She voted against the counting of electoral college votes for Joe Biden and has promoted debunked conspiracy theories on the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n
And South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) wrote on X that the Supreme Court \u201cacted swiftly and UNANIMOUSLY to restore law and order and protect the right of the American people to choose their President.\u201d<\/p>\n
House Republicans also responded to the decision with both glee and attacks on Trump critics.<\/p>\n
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who joined an amicus brief that argued that the Colorado Supreme Court\u2019s decision \u201ctramples the prerogatives of members of Congress,\u201d said the justices \u201caffirmed what we all knew: The Colorado Supreme Court engaged in a purely partisan attack against the front-runner for the Republican presidential primary.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cStates engaging in the same activist, undemocratic behaviors should take notice and leave it to the American people to decide who will be president.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even Republicans critical of Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn the election praised the decision. Speaking at a rally in Texas, former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley \u2014 the last major Republican challenger to Trump in the 2024 nomination race \u2014 said the ruling was \u201cimportant.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t ever want some elected official in a state \u2014 or anybody else \u2014 saying who can and can\u2019t be on a ballot,\u201d Haley said, even after the crowd booed her mention of the ruling. \u201cThis is America. \u2026 I\u2019ll defeat Donald Trump fair and square, but I want him on that ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rep. Ken Buck (Colo.), one of the few Republican lawmakers who has criticized Trump\u2019s false claims about the 2020 election, said it is up to Colorado voters to \u201cdecide who they want to lead our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buck\u2019s sentiment was echoed by many Republicans on Monday. Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said the ruling \u201cconfirms what Republicans have been arguing: The American people get to pick their candidates, not activists or bureaucrats.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Dhillon Law Group, the main firm that defended Trump in the Colorado case, said this \u201cvictory is not just for President Trump but for the integrity of our electoral system and the rights of voters across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Democrats, meanwhile, have been largely silent on the ruling. Among those who spoke out on the decision was Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.), who posted the text of the 14th Amendment on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s clear [Donald Trump] tried to violently overturn an election,\u201d Pascrell wrote. \u201cThe text of our Constitution may be inconvenient and unpleasant to execute, but the text is clear despite any loophole the republican supreme court carves out.\u201d<\/p>\n
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) simply shared the following comment on X: \u201cThe fate of our nation is on the ballot in November. Vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who served as a manager in the first impeachment inquiry against Trump, questioned whether the court will move as quickly to address the second Trump-related case on its docket.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Supreme Court moved rapidly to clear Donald Trump to appear on the ballot. Will it move just as quickly to reject his false claims of immunity so he can appear in court? Or will justice delayed again be justice denied?\u201d he posted on X.<\/p>\n
Speaking to CNN, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said the Supreme Court \u201cpunted\u201d by asking Congress to act and that, while he disagrees with the justices\u2019 interpretation of the 14th Amendment, he noted that he\u2019s working with his Democratic colleagues, including Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) and Eric Swalwell (Calif.), to revive legislation that would help determine that \u201csomeone who committed insurrection is disqualified\u2019 by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, the Supreme Court did not want to step up to the plate and deal with the clear textualist meaning of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,\u201d Raskin said. \u201cMuch less did they want to deal with the original purposes of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was to keep out of federal office people who have already proven themselves disloyal and untrustworthy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Azi Paybarah, Patrick Svitek and Amy B Wang contributed to this report<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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