U.S. Supreme Court rules states can't bar Trump from ballot based on insurrection clause

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : But Trump, in remarks at his Mar-a-Lago estate that were carried on CBS News, called the decision "important" and "well crafted.
50% : "The 'patchwork' that would likely result from state enforcement would 'sever the direct link that the Framers found so critical between the National Government and the people of the United States' as a whole," the court said, quoting from an earlier Supreme Court decision.
48% : "But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 (of the 14th Amendment) with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency.
46% : "We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office," the court said in an unsigned opinion.
45% : When the nation's high court issued its decision Monday, Ron Fein, legal director of the voting rights group Free Speech for People, which organized the ballot challenge in Illinois, called the ruling "disgraceful.""The Supreme Court couldn't exonerate Trump because the evidence of his guilt was overwhelming, so instead the Justices neutered our Constitution's built-in defense against insurrectionists and said the facts don't matter," he said in a statement.
38% : "We're going to win here in Illinois and beat Donald Trump and, I think I said yesterday or the day before, I think it will help Democrats that he's on the ballot," Pritzker said.
38% : But he said the issue will almost certainly come up again if Trump wins the general election in November.
37% : But last week, a Cook County circuit judge reversed that decisionand ordered Trump removed from the Illinois primary ballot, although she put her decision on hold pending further appeals in state courts as well as the pending U.S. Supreme Court decision.
36% : But it also had implications in Illinois and other states where Trump had been accused of taking part in an insurrection during the events surrounding the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
35% : Answering questions at an unrelated event in Urbana Monday, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said he believed Trump remaining on the ballot would be a net positive for Democrats in Illinois.
34% : When Trump filed to run again in 2024, challenges were filed in several states.
30% : There was renewed interest in the amendment in the wake of events on Jan. 6, 2021, when throngs of protesters - many of them arguably summoned to action by Trump and his allies - stormed the Capitol in an effort to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 elections in which Trump was defeated for reelection by Democrat Joe Biden.
24% : "If Donald Trump wins, I think we can absolutely expect that there will be members of Congress who will object to his electoral votes - perhaps in many, many states - on the basis that he's not a qualified candidate, because he violated section three of the 14th amendment."

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