Trump will stay on WA, all states' ballots after Colorado case decision, Supreme Court rules

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "This victory is not just for President Trump but for the integrity of our electoral system and the rights of voters across the country," Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Dhillon Law Group, one of the law firms that served as counsel for Trump, said Monday.
50% : "An evolving electoral map could dramatically change the behavior of voters, parties, and States across the country, in different ways and at different times," read the unsigned majority opinion.
50% : Trump appointed three of the sitting justices.
49% : Trump posted on his social media site, Truth Social.
48% : But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency.
47% : "We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office.
45% : A decision to disqualify Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, had broader legal and political implications.
40% : The Supreme Court at the time skirted whether Trump engaged in insurrection.
37% : "Maine had moved to pull Trump from its primary ballot and Illinois decided the same while the Supreme Court considered the decision.
35% : They did not rule whether Trump engaged in insurrection.
35% : What happened in Colorado?The initial case to pull Trump from Colorado's ballot came from four Republican and two independent voters working with watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
34% : Justices in the decision released Monday -- the day before Super Tuesday when 16 states and a territory will tally votes -- wrote that the clause Colorado invoked to remove Trump from the ballot, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, could only be enforced by Congress.
33% : "Did other states try to disqualify Trump?If the Supreme Court had ruled otherwise, states could go through similar legal processes to remove the former president from the general election ballot.
32% : Murray said requiring a statute would be counter-intuitive to blocking an insurrectionist from taking office and that Trump had engaged in insurrection.
28% : Their lawsuit claimed Trump provoked the Jan. 6, 2021, attack to subvert the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 presidential election and that this amounts to insurrection.
27% : The lawyer, Jonathan Mitchell, said that Jan. 6, 2021, was a "riot" and while Trump had not engaged in insurrection, it wasn't up to Colorado or any other state to determine if he was disqualified from the ballot because of it.
24% : "Trump would likely not win the general election vote in a heavily Democratic state, but in states with high Republican concentrations, removing Trump from the ballot would significantly hinder his election odds.
23% : The Colorado Supreme Court had decided that Trump should be barred from the ballot under a constitutional clause that prevents officials who engaged in insurrection from holding public office.
22% : In January, a Thurston County judge dismissed a citizen-led suit alleging that Secretary of State Steve Hobbs had erred in putting Trump on the ballot.
22% : Wilson declined to consider a request to remove Trump from the general election ballot as well, saying that would be "premature.
20% : Colorado's Supreme Court in December decided to remove Trump after saying that he engaged in insurrection and thus was banned from being president because of the 1868 constitutional amendment.
12% : The case, Trump v. Anderson, concerned whether Colorado was wrong to exclude Trump from the state's primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, enacted after the Civil War to bar former Confederates from holding public office.

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