The US Supreme Court rejected efforts to hold former President Donald Trump accountable for the Capitol riot.
With this decision of the Supreme Court, Trump will be able to contest the US presidential elections. Earlier, a court had disqualified Trump from Colorado’s Republican primary voting.
US Supreme Court justices unanimously overturned a lower court’s ruling that Trump was disqualified from holding public office under the 14th Amendment because of his alleged role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in the first of its kind that the provision, Section 3, could be applied to Trump. Before this, no court had applied Section 3 to a presidential candidate.
Trump’s name was removed from the ballots in Colorado, Maine and Illinois, but all three decisions were pending a Supreme Court decision.
Trump’s lawyers argued that the January 6 riot was not an insurrection and even if it was, Trump had not joined the rioters.