I have provided the quotes more than once already. But here they are again.Here's the decision. Show us.
Read the Supreme Court ruling keeping Trump on the 2024 presidential ballot
The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision to keep presidential candidates from appearing on ballots.www.pbs.org
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We conclude
that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting
to hold state office. But States have no power under the
Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal of-
fices, especially the Presidency.
...
Although the
Fourteenth Amendment restricts state power, nothing in it
plainly withdraws from the States this traditional author-
ity. And after ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment,
States used this authority to disqualify state officers in ac-
cordance with state statutes. See, e.g., Worthy v. Barrett,
63 N. C. 199, 200, 204 (1869) (elected county sheriff ); State
ex rel. Sandlin v. Watkins, 21 La. Ann. 631, 631–633 (1869)
(state judge).
Such power over
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as noted, States did disqualify persons from holding
state offices following ratification of the Fourteenth Amend-
ment. That pattern of disqualification with respect to state,
but not federal offices provides “persuasive evidence of a
general understanding” that the States lacked enforcement
power with respect to the latter.
Would you care to quote where the ruling says that only the Congress can enforce the 14th amendment for federal offices but enforcing the amendment is not allowing the person to hold office. There is no enforcement by simply determining if the person committed insurrection.
But the ruling then disproves your claim that only Congress can decide who is an insurrectionist when it says the following on page 10.
Shortly after ratification of the Amendment, Con-
gress enacted the Enforcement Act of 1870. That Act
authorized federal district attorneys to bring civil actions in
federal court to remove anyone holding nonlegislative of-
fice—federal or state—in violation of Section 3, and made
holding or attempting to hold office in violation of Section 3
a federal crime. §§14, 15, 16 Stat. 143–144 (repealed, 35
Stat. 1153–1154, 62 Stat. 992–993).
Clearly the ruling at no time says that only Congress can decide who is an insurrectionist. The ruling says only Congress can lay out the procedure of how Section 3 is enforced.
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