Key Takeaways From Supreme Court Trump Ballot Ruling

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court issued a landmark, unanimous decision on March 4 clarifying that states don’t have authority under the 14th Amendment to disqualify candidates for federal office. The March 4 opinion centralized decision-making with Congress and effectively negated the possibility of multiple, ongoing court battles in states like Colorado. It also nullified rulings that he was disqualified in Maine and Illinois and removed the disqualification option from state judges, whose decisions could have been used to justify similar moves in other states. According to the court’s liberal justices, the decision also precluded the possibility of federal courts weighing the disqualification issue....