WIN FOR TRUMP: Supreme Court Rules States Can’t Enforce 14th Amendment

Former President Donald Trump at the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week, as the Court unanimously ruled that states lack the authority to disqualify him, or any other federal candidates, from running for office based on a seldom-invoked constitutional provision in the 14th Amendment that forbids individuals who have “engaged in insurrection” from holding public office.The ruling terminates an effort in multiple states to end the candidacy of Trump by invoking the provision in the 14th Amendment, which was crafted to prohibit former Confederates from holding public office following the Civil War.The main reason the Court decided that states cannot enforce the 14th Amendment in this context is because allowing so would be The Court asserted that in order to enforce the 14th Amendment against a federal candidate, Congress must establish a comprehensive procedure.