Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/04/trump-eligible-for-2020-ballot-supreme-courts-final-verdict.html
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Congress passed the Amendment that bans people like Trump running for POTUS. Now Congress and the Supreme Court alike seem intent on passing the buck.
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It’s an amendment to the constitution, so “the highest law in the land.”
But individual states can’t enforce it.
So then individual states could start disobeying/disregarding the constitution and if congress did nothing about it. . . .?
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Too bad it’s too late (is it?) to get a petition going to put a frozen embryo on the Alabama ballot for President. [Or could people write-in that “candidate” during Alabama’s Republican primary tomorrow?]
If only Congress can decide whether or not a candidate is eligible to be on the ballot (as the Court has just ruled) that means it would be inappropriate for a mere Secretary of State to decline to put someone on the ballot just because they’re not 35 years of age, not a natural-born citizen, and/or haven’t lived in the US for at least 14 years, right?
Or if you don’t want to go quite that absurd, how about nominating the Governator? Make Congress vote whether or not Arnold Schwarzenegger is eligible to be President. He’s over 35 and has lived in the US for at least 14 years. His age shouldn’t be an issue; he’s probably still fit enough to bench press either President Biden or Donald Trump!
So what if he was born in Austria? Instead of having the host of The Apprentice run the country, why not let the host of The Celebrity Apprentice?
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Insurrectionists seem to be treated pretty well these days.
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No one is going to save us. Not the SC, not Merrick Garland or Jack Smith or Letitia James or Fani Willis. It’s up to us to roll up our sleeves and send Trump to the dustbin of history’s villains all by ourselves. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
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Seems we are the ONLY ones that haven’t been bought off.
Where is my lux RV and fancy vaca?
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“This is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency,” she wrote.
Hey, a fascist insurrectionist has openly announced his intention to undermine liberal democracy if he wins the Electoral College. But let’s all chill out and try to get along, amirite?
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Sad that so many can be bought off for so little.
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Yeah well, … I still see lawn signs with “Trump 2020” on them. Even some really big ones.
ETA photo: it’s dated May, 2023 but that sign was still there as of last Wednesday.
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States’ Rights is an American political philosophy that means states are allowed to be more authoritarian than the federal government, but cannot be more liberal than the federal government
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In this case, the Court must decide whether Colorado may keep a Presidential candidate off the ballot on the ground that he is an oathbreaking insurrectionist and thus disqualified from holding federal office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. Allowing Colorado to do so would, we agree, create a chaotic state-by-state patchwork, at odds with our Nation’s federalism principles. That is enough to resolve this case.
But but but federalism is a state-by-state patchwork! That’s the whole idea. We don’t dispatch commissars from DC to dictate how ballots are printed to make sure they all look exactly the same. We have all fifty states run their own elections, often with state-specific quirks, because the federalist parts of the Constitution require it. Indeed, that requirement has led to a lot problems in the past! But we stick to it; we’ve fashioned a whole rickety apparatus, which the court is constantly tinkering with, to let states handle administering their elections within the Constitution’s guardrails. Today, all of as sudden, and according to all the Justices, letting Colorado make up its ballot in accordance with the Constitution’s prohibition on oathbreaking insurrectionists somehow violates the Constitution’s design. It is baffling.
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I’m honestly not really surprised.
Hopefully people will be mobilized to make sure he doesn’t get elected. 
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Not sure how that tracks with marijuana laws. Fed crime, legal in various states, etc.
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Hey, maybe Obama should run again for the Democrats.
It will also take a Congress vote to forbid it.
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“Never before have so many been fucked over by so few, for so little.”
– Churchill, probably.
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