Read the Supreme Court ruling keeping Trump on the 2024 presidential ballot

Former President Donald Trump is eligible to stay on primary election ballots, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday.

The 9-0 ruling is the first in the high court’s history on the so-called insurrection clause in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Section 3 of the amendment, which was ratified after the Civil War, states that no one may hold federal or state public office if they have taken an oath to protect the Constitution “as an officer of the United States” and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

Read the full ruling below.

In its 20-page ruling, the court said Congress has the power to bar someone from federal office — not the states.

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“We conclude that states may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office,” the justices wrote. “But states have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency.”

The court reversed the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling in December that Trump was ineligible to run for or hold federal office and removed Trump from the state’s primary ballot. The ruling overturns decisions in other states such as Maine and Illinois as well. Voters in Colorado and Maine will cast their ballots in their states’ primary elections on Tuesday, March 5.

— Mark Sherman, Associated Press