Rep. Jamie Raskin after SCOTUS ruling aims to revive legislation to allow Congress to ban insurrectionists from office.

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.”