By giving former President Trump the heave-ho from the primary ballot in their state, four justices of the Supreme Court of Colorado just handed the GOP the greatest Christmas present of all time.

It spared the Republican Party the shame and dishonor of nominating a criminal defendant indicted in four jurisdictions on 91 felony counts who is furiously trying to prevent a trial on the merits before the November election.

The ruling is stayed until Jan. 4, and the stay will be continued if the U.S. Supreme Court decides to step in, as it is almost sure to do. Of course, as we know the Supreme Court is not infallible, but certainly final.

The court will hear the case promptly to get it settled well before the primaries, if for no other reason than to provide a uniform national rule binding on every state and prevent electoral chaos. This is not abortion, where the court left it to the individual states to decide when life begins. We cannot have Trump disqualified in some states but not in others. And only the Supremes can straighten it out.

I predict that they will affirm. They will affirm because there is no answer to it. They will affirm because if there is any justice in the world, Trump will be recognized as an insurrectionist and disqualified from holding office under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. And the Constitution, not Trump, is the supreme law of the land.

The black letter of the Constitution disqualifies insurrectionists in no uncertain terms as sure as it disqualifies “stable geniuses” who are under 35 years of age or persons who are not natural born citizens of the United States. The 14th Amendment provides that anyone who swore an oath to........

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