‘Big win for America’: Trump celebrates Supreme Court ruling
“I was very honored by a nine-to-nothing vote,” Trump said after the ruling.
Donald Trump is celebrating after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that states can’t remove the former president from the 2024 presidential ballot.
“I was very honored by a nine-to-nothing vote,” Trump said on the Howie Carr Show following the ruling. “And this is for future presidents. This is not for me. This is for future presidents, all presidents. But this was a very big decision. It was a great decision.”
The Supreme Court ruled that states have no authority to remove Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot. The high court ruled in an unsigned opinion that only Congress, not the states, can disqualify a presidential candidate under the Constitution’s “insurrection clause.” The justices’ decision overturns a Colorado ruling that would have removed Trump from the ballot there.
“BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!” Trump posted to Truth Social moments after the opinion was released.
The ruling is just the first of several major legal battles that will shape the course of the 2024 election. Trump first entered uncharted territory when he became the first former president to face any kind of criminal charges after being indicted by a New York grand jury last March over his alleged role in a scheme to pay hush money to a porn star during the 2016 presidential campaign. Since then, Trump has been indicted three more times — two times at the federal level. Trump has denied wrongdoing in all four cases.
The Supreme Court will also soon have to weigh in on key issues affecting Trump’s criminal cases. Last week, the high court announced that it would review Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution for actions he took while in office. The justices will hear arguments on the case during the week of April 22 and proceedings in the trial court remain frozen.
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