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The Supreme Court Rules that States CAN'T Disqualify Insurrectionists from their Ballot


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The United States Supreme Court has dealt American democracy a gut-punch, ruling that state election authorities CANNOT keep an insurrectionist off the state presidential primary ballot... even after a state trial court and State Supreme Court ruled that a person HAD engaged in insurrection against the U. S.

But all is not lost: the Supreme Court said there's a remedy . . . Congress can legislate and come up with a statutory scheme by which insurrectionists CAN be kept out of federal office. What are the real-world implications of this kind of Supreme Court ruling? The court puts the disqualification issue in the hands of people like Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (who fought to have Donald Trump remain in office in 2020 contrary the the expressed will of the American voters), and in the hands of people like Jim Jordan and James Comer and Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene. These are the people the Supreme Court has empowered to disqualify insurrections from holding federal office.

But let's not forget, several members of Congress sought presidential pardons for their conduct on and around January 6th, 2021, supporting the inference that they, themselves, are insurrectionists. Do we really expect them to work against their own interest in retaining power? Glenn reviews the folly of today's Supreme Court ruling.

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