Trump Ballot Case: SCOTUS Could Hand Him a Win in Multiple Ways – One Would Be a ‘Chilling’ Scenario

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In totalitarian regimes, taking the official lie seriously becomes mandatory.

Although gargantuan irregularities marred the 2020 presidential election, and although federal agents almost certainly had a hand in the events surrounding the Capitol incursion of Jan. 6, 2021, the establishment nonetheless has spent more than three years deflecting attention from its own soft coup by blithely and informally accusing former President Donald Trump of having engaged in insurrection, which in turn has empowered petty tyrants in Colorado to remove Trump from their 2024 presidential ballot.

Thus, the Supreme Court’s nine justices must take the lie seriously. And when they finally rule in Trump’s favor, as they appear likely to do, they could either put an end to the tyrants’ madness or, in one nightmare scenario, issue a ruling so fraught with mischief that it could throw the 2024 presidential election into total confusion.

On Thursday, SCOTUS heard arguments from lawyers for both Colorado and the former president. By all accounts, the justices appeared deeply skeptical of the state’s argument for excluding Trump from its ballot.

That argument involved Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which reads as follows:

The states ratified the 14th Amendment in 1868, three years after the Civil War. Thus, the authors of Section 3’s “insurrection” clause meant to exclude from office former Confederate officials who had engaged in armed rebellion.

During questioning on Thursday, the justices noted obvious problems with Colorado’s attempt to apply Section 3 to Trump.

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