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minus-squareNocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·11 months agoThe Supreme Court doesn’t really have any say in how states run their elections. That’s the only wrinkle I see on this. If they tried to dictate state elections, states could just ignore it.
minus-squareRapidcreek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down3·11 months agoThe question is if Trump qualifies to be president per the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. The states don’t decide that, SCOTUS does.
minus-squareNocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-211 months agoThe constitution is pretty clearly written on this one. Any decision otherwise than to bar Trump from running is playing fuckery politics.
minus-squareRapidcreek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·11 months agoYou and I might find it clear, but we are not SCOTUS.
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoThey are indeed exceptionally good at manufacturing ambiguity where none exists.
The Supreme Court doesn’t really have any say in how states run their elections. That’s the only wrinkle I see on this. If they tried to dictate state elections, states could just ignore it.
The question is if Trump qualifies to be president per the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. The states don’t decide that, SCOTUS does.
The constitution is pretty clearly written on this one. Any decision otherwise than to bar Trump from running is playing fuckery politics.
You and I might find it clear, but we are not SCOTUS.
They are indeed exceptionally good at manufacturing ambiguity where none exists.