After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Colorado cannot remove Donald Trump from its 2024 presidential ballot, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said he was working to revive legislation that would “set up a process” to disqualify someone who's committed an insurrection.
“The Supreme Court punted and said it's up to Congress to act,” Raskin told CNN. “I am working with a number of my colleagues, including Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), to revive legislation that we had to set up a process by which we could determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.”
“The question is whether Speaker Mike Johnson would allow us to bring this to the floor of the House,” he added.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously, in a 9-0 ruling on Monday, that states lack the power to block federal candidates from the ballot. The congressman said he disagreed with the court’s interpretation that the case wasn’t a “judicial resolution under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment” and that it was “up to Congress to enforce it.”
“I disagree with that interpretation, just because the other parts of the 14th Amendment are self-executing,” Raskin said. “People can go to court and say that something violates equal protection, even if there's not a federal statute that allows them to do that.”
