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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pretty clear threat by the SC Justices that Republican states are going to use this to disqualify Democrat candidates en masse, if the Court disqualifies Trump. [/quote]

Why would this prevent a democrats  who haven’t engaged in insurrection or  are under felony indictments from being in the ballot?  [/quote]

Because the state could declare that a democrat did engage in insurrection even without a conviction.[/quote]

Sure, and then they would sue and win or appeal and win.  Because courts (didn't used to) tolerate nonsense.

The Supreme Court typically doesn't make decisions based on hostage-taking.  They generally aren't even aware that their decisions have wide-reaching effects in lower courts because they don't see those effects, it all gets sorted out below.  [/quote]

It's funny how these considerations that political actors might act in bad faith don't figure into other SCOTUS decisions on voting issues.  They certainly didn't seem to care that politicians might abuse gerrymandering to their own partisan advantage when they were deciding whether partisan gerrymandering was constitutional.  They didn't care that politicians who had historically discriminated against blacks in voting might start doing it again before they struck down the VRA's pre-clearance requirement. [/quote]

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