An attempt to remove the Pennsylvania Republican from the ballot is likely to be spiked after the Supreme Court’s ruling for Trump.
Monday’s Supreme Court decision had impacts beyond the race for the White House. One key example: Central Pennsylvania voters will most likely see Scott Perry on their ballots this November.
The ruling that individual states can’t disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot extends to other federal offices, too. And that should clear Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, of litigation attempting to have him thrown off the ballot for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election.
“There’s no basis on which that suit can survive in light of this opinion,” Joshua Voss, Perry’s lead lawyer in the case, said after the Supreme Court ruling. “This should be the final word.”
Monday’s ruling effectively ended efforts that bubbled up in dozens of states to have Trump disqualified from the presidency for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. Those efforts relied on an interpretation of the “insurrection clause” of the 14th Amendment that says people who engaged in insurrection after taking an oath to support the Constitution are barred from future office.
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The SCOTUS 14A ruling applies not just to Trump but to federal candidates — like Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), facing a similar attempt to disqualify him from ballot.
“There’s no basis on which that suit can survive in light of this opinion,” his lawyer said.https://t.co/gyPWUgYaQC
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