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. That power resides with Congress, the court wrote in an unsigned opinion.
Trump posted on his social media network shortly after the decision was released: “BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!”
The outcome ends efforts in Colorado, Illinois, Maine and elsewhere to kick Trump, the front-runner for his party’s nomination, off the ballot because of his attempts to undo his loss in the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Grief and anger engulfed the city of Utica, N.Y., after a police officer shot and killed...
A Kentucky judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by three Jewish mothers who argued that the state's...
South Carolina has implemented one of the most restrictive book ban laws in the US, enabling...
A minivan slammed into a Long Island, New York, nail salon on Friday, killing four people...
