The unanimous Supreme Court ruling that said states can’t keep a duly-filed presidential candidate — Donald Trump — from their ballot was met with reactions that spanned soup to nuts on Monday.
The court announced its decision at 10 am. Eastern time. Soon, Trump was posting on Truth Social, “BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!” and another post with a picture of him hugging the flag.
“You cannot take somebody out of a race because an opponent would like to have it that way. The voters can take the person out of the race very quickly, but a court shouldn’t be doing that and the Supreme Court saw that,” Trump said.
Nikki Haley, his Republican competitor, did not comment on the ruling, which is rocking the news cycle. Instead, she pulled something from the campaign file relating to girl power:
Haley also wrote on X/Twitter today: “Let’s get back to normal and back to the basics. Let’s talk about how we’re going to get our national debt under control and how we’re going to prevent war. This primary shouldn’t be about one man or one woman, it should be about our country.”
President Joe Biden, on his campaign page, also made no mention of the ruling. Neither did he make note of it on his official @POTUS page on X. Instead, his campaign team wrote about how he is going to take away Americans’ “assault weapons.” It was as if nothing had happened at the Supreme Court this morning.
Vivek Ramaswamy, a former presidential candidate who over the weekend filed an amicus brief to urging the justices to overturn Colorado’s “disastrous & unconstitutional” ruling to eliminate Trump from the state’s ballot, said on Monday, “Today’s 9-0 Supreme Court decision needn’t be something to celebrate, it’s something we ought to once again take for granted: we the people decide who governs. The fact that it took the highest Court in the land to say it shows how far we’ve fallen. But it’s a good start in the right direction.”
Alaskan Nick Begich, a Republican candidate for Congress and supporter of Trump, said, “The most liberal justices sided with the most conservative justices — without exception. The biggest thing to note is not that they ruled in trump’s favor but that they ruled 9-0 with the liberal and conservative wing agreeing on the Constitution’s clarity on this matter. However, the fact that you have to go to the Supreme Court to get justice today because the rest of the court system is so politicized, is what is so concerning.”
Although 24 attorneys general filed a letter with the Supreme Court asking the court to uphold the Constitution, that left 26 attorneys general who did not join in.
Commentator Keith Olbermann, hard left Democrat formerly with MSNBC, called for the dissolution of the Supreme Court to save democracy, adding, “The Supreme Court has betrayed democracy. Its members including Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor have proved themselves inept at reading comprehension. And collectively the ‘court’ has shown itself to be corrupt and illegitimate. It must be dissolved.”
The Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, looking close to tears, posted a video saying, “Ultimately, it will be up to the American voters to save our democracy.” After trying to take away choice from the voters, she now hopes voters will do the right thing as she sees it.
Kelly Tshibaka, director for Trump’s campaign in Alaska, said, “SCOTUS delivered a landmark unanimous ruling protecting free & fair elections this morning. Neither @POTUS nor @NikkiHaley have commented. Do they NOT support the Constitution? NOT support elections by the People??”
Sen. Dan Sullivan posted this comment: “Today’s unanimous decision to strike down the Colorado court’s ruling to keep President Trump off the ballot is a victory for American democracy. The American people should decide who will lead our country—not four judges in Colorado. You don’t ‘preserve’ democracy by removing candidates from the ballot.”
Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Mary Peltola, both never-Trumpers were silent on the matter. Murkowski supports Haley and Peltola is on Team Biden.
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