5 Mar 2024

US Supreme Court bars states from disqualifying candidates

From Midday Report, 12:50 pm on 5 March 2024

In a huge win for Donald Trump, the US Supreme Court has barred states from disqualifying candidates for running for president, using an anti-insurrection and constitutional clause.

The ruling has come right before one of the biggest days on the US political calendar- Super Tuesday.

This is when 15 states will chose which candidates they want to represent them in the November Presidential Elections.

Niall Stanage is a White House columnist for the American political newspaper and website, The Hill.

He told Worldwatch's Charlie Dreaver, this has all but cemented Trump's fate as the Republican's Presidential candidate.