The term featured three cases directly affecting Trump, each written by Chief Justice John Roberts. Trump emerged victorious in all of them. The first concerned whether Colorado could remove Trump from the ballot because he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The Court held, unanimously, that states are not allowed to disqualify from their ballots any candidate for federal office whom they deem to be an insurrectionist, under the Fourteenth Amendment. This means that Trump will be on the ballot in every state. The second was about whether it is proper for the federal government to use a federal law, enacted after the Enron scandal, which makes it a crime to obstruct an official proceeding, to prosecute individuals for storming the Capitol on January 6th. The Court held, with the liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joining four conservative Justices, that the prosecution’s interpretation of the statute was incorrect. This means that the federal charges based on that provision—including some in Smith’s indictment against Trump—have to be thrown out.