Kind of a no-brainer. You can’t have 50 States independently deciding who may or may not be on a Federal ballot. It would be a clown show based on political bias State by State.
An unexpectedly strong ruling.
I’m still surprised at least one female lib justice didn’t dissent as a virtue signal to the left
There are 3,141 counties in the US. Probably 10 times that number of judges when you include municipal, district and state supremes.
If some judge in Cornfield County Nebraska doesn’t like some candidate they could exclude them from the ballot on false pretenses.
The election in the US would soon look like a circus..............
Allowing the States to disqualify presidential and federal candidates on a whim would’ve led to a civil war in short order. It would’ve forced the individual States to pursue lawfare in conjunction with other politically aligned states to even have a chance of having their concerns addressed.
A wise, and therefore rare, decision by the Supreme Court.
For very similar reasons, the POTUS cannot be subject to the 30,000 or so district attorneys in the US. The constitution makes it quite clear that the remedy is impeachment by the house and trial by the Senate.
If every local DA has jurisdiction over the president, it will be a free for all with biased DAs in highly biased jurisdictions hauling a president from the opposing party in for trial before kangaroo courts in which he has no chance at obtaining a fair trial. It will simply devolve into an endless tit for tat game.