The US Supreme Court has handed Donald Trump a major victory, ruling he cannot be disqualified under a constitutional clause referencing insurrection.
The case was prompted by a decision from the Colorado Supreme Court to exclude him from the state's ballot.
The justices of the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the decision by Colorado's top court to kick the former president off the state's Tuesday Republican primary ballot after finding that the US Constitution's 14th Amendment disqualified him from again holding public office.
The Colorado court had found that Mr Trump took part in an insurrection for inciting and supporting the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by his supporters.
Trump, who is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden in the US election this year, welcomed the ruling.
Trump said he hoped the decision would help unify the country, but then lambasted political opponents and prosecutors behind four criminal cases against him.
The former real estate mogul was also barred from the ballot in Maine and Illinois based on the 14th Amendment. Those decisions were put on hold pending the Supreme Court's ruling in the Colorado case.
Source : abc.net.au
