The Supreme Court forced the state of Colorado to keep Donald Trump on the presidential ballot after the state’s Supreme Court found that the Constitution’s Disqualification Clause barred him from running for office.
Cowards.
Well, damn those traitors…but no surprise.
Good News, Republican judges can’t DQ Biden in retaliation…
Failed at your first attempt to overthrow the US government and you’re a Republican?
Try, try again!
This was expected.
So much for “textualism” and honoring the Constitution. This opens the door to violate every clause. At least, if you’re a Republican.
No more talk of liberal justices, please.
Cue “The Sky is Falling” rhetoric when, objectively this is probably the only legitimate ruling we’ll get from them this year…
Ridiculous.
Completely expected, and as it was issued “per curiam” no one objected. The holding was that Congress must pass some legislation to make the Fourteenth stick. They also noted that the states could bar someone from state office, just not the Presidency. I’m much more concerned that they will overturn the DC Circuit on immunity, that made-up Presidential privilege.
Bingo.
If they had upheld it, by end of day at least half the States would’ve seen lawsuits challenging Biden’s name on ballots, and we wouldn’t even have to worry about what happens on election Day because he’d be knocked out of the running in enough that Trump would already have won.
The outcome here is the right one.
The Court has ruled that in a democracy, voters are free to elect someone to the presidency whose stated goals and actions are aimed at destroying that democracy. In other words, the Court will not save us from ourselves…
The alternative would have been worse.
There’s no “one weird trick” to make everything all nice and okay when roughly half of the voting public in a democracy thinks that trying to overturn elections is actually cool and good. You need to defeat the stain at the ballot box.
I have no problem with this. If they had empowered states to do this, red states would DQ Democrats at every opportunity. We have seen how much evidence they need for impeachment.
My current fear concerns the republican house refusing to seat newly elected dems after the election (as Johnson is doing with Santos’ replacement now), then refusing to count enough electoral votes that the election is thrown into the reduced, republican house. Strictly legal coup.
This is a good thing in this context
The 14th Amendment was flawed (IMO), in not defining insurrection closely enough, because at the time it was just assumed everyone would know it was about the Civil War. That’s flaw #1.
Flaw #2 is that it said a supermajority of both houses of Congress could vote to restore the ability for someone to run for office even if they were an insurrectionist. So it was never an absolute, clear-cut ban. I haven’t read the opinion but I wouldn’t be surprised if this is what the court leaned on to punt it back to Congress.
Suozzi has been sworn in.
It’s up to us– to ‘DQ’ TSF from holding office.
Everybody up for this?