The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that the Colorado Supreme Court’s removal of former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot is unconstitutional.

The 9-0 ruling found all justices agreeing that the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause” empowers Congress, not states, to determine ballot qualification.

BREAKING: States may not unilaterally disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot, the Supreme Court rules unanimously..

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Last month, CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig discussed how he thought the nation’s highest court might rule, adding he believed Trump would win the case as he did.

“Nobody knows for sure how this is going to go. No practitioner, no law professor, no retired judge, no Twitter icon, no TV analyst or former prosecutor (ahem) can rightly make bold declarations about how the ongoing legal Armageddon over the 14th Amendment will ultimately come out,” Honig began in his column for the New York Intelligencer.

“…[W]e can draw on adjacent examples, but we’ve never seen anything quite like the ongoing effort to disqualify Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot,” he added.

“In his petition for review, Trump makes somewhere between seven and ten arguments against his disqualification, depending how thinly we slice the pie. The Court might rule on all of them, or some, or none at all; it might find for Trump on some issues but against him on others; or it could import a rationale that Trump has not even raised. The permutations are dizzying, mathematically,” Hoenig wrote.

First and foremost, he speculated, the Supreme Court wants to quickly and definitively decide the issue so as to avoid additional litigation and patchwork applications of the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause across the states.

“The Court has every incentive to use a silver bullet here. One shot and we’re done,” Honig said.

Cases have been filed in more than a dozen other states seeking to remove Trump from the ’24 ballot under the insurrection clause, but most of those failed. Last week, however, a county judge in Illinois removed Trump from the ballot even after the state’s elections board voted unanimously to leave him on.