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https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/03/04/ethics-heroes-the-unanimous-u-s-supreme-court/

Ethics Heroes: The Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court
MARCH 4, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL


I’m proud of them.

In its decision in Trump v. Anderson, just announced, the Court reversed
the the Colorado Supreme Court’s indefensible decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot on the grounds
that he participated in an “insurrection.” “Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing
Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse.”
That’s all that needed to be said, and if simplicity and pure law was
what the Court needed to ensure a unanimous decision, then so be it.
Ethics Alarms had previously stated that the SCOTUS ruling striking down
the “lawfare”-inspired crack-brain theory (that a provision created specifically to deal with former participants in the Confederacy was
properly applicable to Donald Trump because a mob of idiots stormed the
U.S. Capitol in a tantrum over his loss in the 2020 election) should be unanimous, and mirabile dictu, it was. This ends all state efforts to
keep Trump off the ballot.


Good. That should (but won’t) shut up the pundits who have been grousing
all week that the Supreme Court’s conservatives are involved in a dark conspiracy to save Trump from the consequences of his actions. Even
poor, simple Sonia agreed that the 14th Amendment plot was based on
bunk. Those complaining that SCOTUS is stalling the Trump Train to
Prison by reviewing such cases should look in the mirror: the Justices shouldn’t have had to waste one second on the disqualification theory.
It was that bad.

Legal Insurrection has details.

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