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States can’t remove Trump from ballot, Supreme Court says (www.politico.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by circularfish to c/politics

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Have not read the separate opinion, which argues that the per curiam went too far in barring Federal courts from ruling on Section 3. Seems like that could become relevant down the road a bit.

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[–] the_frumious_bandersnatch@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yep, and because we know Democrats won't have the stomach for, the next time there's a Republican VP on Jan 6th, they will use this ruling to announce that the Democratic winner is an insurrectionist and therefore disqualified and the same people sitting on the bench will rule that he's right.