Democrats announce bill to kick Trump off the ballot immediately after the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he could stay: The left is melting over the ruling and even calling for the court to be dissolved

Top Democrat Jamie Raskin said he is working with fellow liberals in Congress to revive legislation that would disqualify Donald Trump from running for office in light of the new Supreme Court ruling.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 on Monday that only Congress, not Colorado, can bar Trump from the ballot and that the former president must be reinstated in the Centennial State’s primary ballots.

Raskin, D-Md., chairman of the Oversight Committee, said he was working with colleagues like Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., to “revive legislation for which we have a process had to set up that would allow us to find that someone who has committed an insurrection is disqualified under section three of the 14th Amendment.”

Such a bill was introduced for the first time in 2022 by Schultz and would create a path for the Justice Department to sue to keep candidates off the ballot under the 14th Amendment.

“The House of Representatives has already impeached Donald Trump for participating in the insurrection by inciting it,” Raskin told CNN shortly after the ruling. ‘The House has already ruled on this.’

Meanwhile, Democratic Maine Rep. Jared Golden told DailyMail.com in a statement: “The Supreme Court has been right.”

“I believe that Donald Trump incited the violence that occurred on January 6, and my vote to impeach him for that reflects that belief. “But the impeachment vote in the House of Representatives alone is not enough to exclude him from the ballot,” he said.

‘We are a nation of laws and a democracy. “Today’s unanimous Supreme Court decision confirms that Maine voters must – and will – decide whether Donald Trump should run for president again.”

The ruling ends efforts in Colorado, Maine and Illinois to bar the former president from voting, using a mechanism that disqualifies “candidates involved in the insurrection” from running for power again.

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled last year that Section 3 applied to Trump, the first time a court applied the mechanism to a presidential candidate.

But in their 20-page ruling, the justices said only Congress could determine who could run for office.

“States should not unilaterally disqualify Donald Trump from voting,” they said in an unsigned opinion. “The Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling is reversed.”

The case is the Court’s most direct intervention in the presidential election since Bush v. Gore, when it effectively handed the deadlocked 2000 outcome to Republican candidate George W. Bush.

But Trump-appointed Judge Amy Coney Barrett sided with three liberal justices in a concurring opinion that said the ruling should have a more limited scope.

She joined the overall decision but warned of “sharpness” in the court’s divisions — during an election season in which the Supreme Court is making momentous decisions on presidential immunity while lower courts are making scheduling decisions that will determine whether Trump faces trial confronted with jury verdicts. November elections.

‘The majority’s choice of a different path leaves the remaining judges with the choice of how to respond. In my view, this is not the time to add to the disagreement with stridency,” Barrett wrote in her one-page opinion.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 on Monday that only Congress, not Colorado, can bar Trump from the ballot and that the former president must be reinstated in the Centennial State’s primary ballots.

She wrote that she agreed that states do not have the power to enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which includes language banning people who participated in the insurrection from holding “office” in the U.S. to clothe.

“That principle is sufficient to resolve this case, and I would decide no more than that.” But she writes that the majority went too far by setting conditions that only Congress can advocate through legislation.

Meanwhile, political commentator Keith Olbermann wrote on X that the Supreme Court has “betrayed democracy.”

“Its members, including Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor, have proven themselves to be incompetent at reading comprehension. And collectively, the ‘court’ has proven itself to be corrupt and illegitimate. It needs to be resolved.”

“If the political whores on the court override fairly explicit language in the Constitution in favor of one politician, your ‘separation of powers’ is long dead,” he added.

Secretary of State Jena Griswold of Colorado wrote of Colorado should be able to keep oath-breaking insurrections out of our ballot.”

“We all know that Congress is a virtually non-functioning body,” Griswold said on MSNBC about the ruling’s provision deeming Congress the proper authority to prevent Trump from running for office. “It’s up to American voters to save our democracy.”