Supporters of former President Donald Trump celebrated the Supreme Court's unanimous decision in the Colorado case challenging Trump's 2024 candidacy, applauding the court's three liberal justices for joining their conservative colleagues in Monday's major ruling.
"Unanimous decision from the Supreme Court on the Colorado case," Kevin Roberts, the president of leading conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, shortly after the ruling was issued. "You know the Regime has overreached when even the liberal justices concur."
On Monday, the high court ruled 9-0 in favor of Trump, overturning the Colorado Supreme Court's decision that Trump is ineligible for the state's primary ballot because of his role in the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
In a concurring opinion, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson—the court's three liberals—said that allowing Colorado to remove Trump from the ballot would "create a chaotic state-by-state patchwork, at odds with our Nation's federalism principles."
"Big win for America, even the liberal judges agree that the democrat Colorado Supreme Court is corrupt," one X user wrote.
"Unanimous decision, precedent set, liberal justices agreed, the Colorado Supreme Court should be severely rebuked," another user said in response to a tweet from conservative activist Scott Presler that declared, "Precedent has been set."
Columnist and former MMA fighter Malcolm Flex also tweeted that the decision either meant that the liberal justices were "looking at the utterly ridiculous antics by the Left and giving up" or "realizing that if they legitimize these attempts, they sight a death cert for their authority."
"Either way, the march to the WH shall continue unimpeded," Flex said.
Although the liberal justices sided with Trump, they said that their conservative counterparts go too far to "decide novel constitutional questions to insulate this Court and petitioner from future controversy."
Criticizing the majority opinion's decision to rule that a disqualification due to insurrection can only occur in cases where Congress enacts a particular kind of legislation, the liberal justices said the view of their counterparts creates limits to what "the men who drafted and ratified the Fourteenth Amendment" sought out to do.
"Although we agree that Colorado cannot enforce Section 3, we protest the majority's effort to use this case to define the limits of federal enforcement of that provision," Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson said in a concurring opinion. "Because we would decide only the issue before us, we concur only in the judgment."
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