The justices ruled that the 14th Amendment did not allow states to bar the former president from the ballot. The justices gave different reasons, but the decision was unanimous.
States’ rights, unless it’s inconvenient.
Fucking cretins.
The decline continues…
Even though it may seem disappointing, this was realistically the right call. You know what they say about broken clocks, and all.
They didn’t say he couldn’t be removed from the ballot, just that it’s a federal issue to solve and not a state one. And had they allowed it, that precedent would have been abused almost immediately and been back in the court’s review all over again and would have resulted in a ton of dramatic and divisive political theater in the meantime.
Though, it does highlight some significant flaws in our electoral process. There’s a lot of conflict between what the states and what the fed should be able to do for elections. The whole system needs to be revamped, IMO. Why each state sets their own rules is baffling to me in the first place; the Presidency affects the entire country, not just the states, so I don’t get why we aren’t going by nationwide popular vote instead of “California’s electors picked Candidate A even though the majority of the voters picked Candidate B, and Iowa voters did a collective Hokey Pokey in a big expo center and decided on Candidate C”, etc.
