BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects effort to remove Trump from the ballot
(twitter.com)
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SCOTUS didn't address the fact that he was adjudicated an insurrectionist though. His defense specifically wanted him cleared of it. So I wouldn't call it a full victory.
Wasn't really the point of it, he was never actually convicted of any of that -- because he plainly didn't do it -- and so it would actually lend more legitimacy to those claims if they did.
Seems evident on its face since he has never been indicted for being an insurrectionist, much less tried and convicted.
If I remember correctly, some of the questioning did hit on the lines of "How can it be legitimate for a state to remove someone for a crime they were never charged with.
I wonder how that lunatic leftist Ecstasy is spinning this.
I suppose it makes the question moot as far as the question posed to SCOTUS on this occasion - Do the states have the authority to remove Donald (under any circumstances) = no.
I suppose that part of the defense could have just been for show.
That being said, the SCOTUS opinion did delve into how the 14th amendment could be used, which is what caused concurrences by ACB and the liberal judges who felt it was out of scope.
Thanks for the additional context, I haven't had time to read the ruling for myself yet.