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Livestream audio of Supreme Court arguments over Trump's removal from Colorado ballot (www.msnbc.com)

submitted 9 months ago by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to c/politics

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[–] memfree 6 points 9 months ago

This.

I don't see how they can cry, "States' Rights!" all this time and now try to say states DON'T have the right to set their ballots. They do. They keep various 3rd party candidates off ballots all the time for stuff like not having enough signatures to get them ON the ballot.

I heard Trump's lawyer argue that requiring candidates not-be-insurrectionists was adding a requirement not in the Constitution -- except it IS in the Constitution and even though 2/3 of Congress could give a pardon/waiver on that, the fact that they MIGHT do so in the future does not disqualify Trump in the now, which the Colorado lawyer brought up. Later, TV commentators brought up that after the Civil War, a bunch of guys DID preemptively ask Congress for waivers. If Trump got that through now, it sounds like Colorado would have to put him on the ballot.

The Supreme Court decided Bush V. Gore on just the state of Florida. It sounds like they are now deciding Trump V. [Constitution] and trying to blame it on Colorado. Sadly, they seem to want the Constitution to lose. My last hope is that they don't make this about letting 'one state decide the president' because that already happens just based on who each state allows to vote. I'm hoping their decision stems from something actually in the Constitution.