The U.S. Supreme Court has swept away one of the few remaining obstacles to Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy, ruling unanimously that Colorado could not remove him from that state’s primary ballot.
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution bars from office anyone who has taken an oath and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the country. In December, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled that Mr. Trump must be taken off the state’s ballot because he had engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters entered the U.S. Capitol after a speech by the former president.
But the U.S. Supreme Court overruled that decision on Monday, saying Congress, not individual states, holds responsibility for enforcing a constitutional provision that bars insurrectionists from holding many federal offices. The majority decision said Congress must pass legislation to do so, though this prompted a warning from the three liberal justices that …