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To: Starman417

Dershowitz thinks there’s a path to the Supreme Court, too.


2 posted on 06/12/2024 9:24:07 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630; Starman417
It is arguable (at least by me as an amateur observer) that SCOTUS has already laid the groundwork for an intervention with a decision made earlier in this term.

It was Trump v. Anderson where a bunch of n'er-do-wells in Colorado were trying to argue that Trump couldn't be on the ballot thanks to the 'insurrectionist' claim.

While the finding ruled that Congress was the enforcement arm of the 14th amendment's Section 3 rule, I'd submit that comments made in the Concurrence opinion bear some weight here:

"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."

These words were signed off by Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson. Perhaps they'd agree that New York is trying to do the same here?

[ The gotcha here is this: the bulk of their opinion was countering the majority, which gave Congress the power of determining the 'insurrection' question. This trio might then be persuaded -- as wrong as they would be on that point -- that New York exercised a proper legal proceeding against Trump, and therefore everything is cool with them. Hopefully, there's still at least 5 votes to the contrary. ]

5 posted on 06/12/2024 9:44:53 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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