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Colorado Supreme Court says Trump is ineligible to run again (www.politico.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

SCOTUS is just going to overturn it, right?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Correct.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So then states don’t have rights?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Well yea. There was a war about it and everything. States exist as inefficient middlemen and have no business dictating voting rights or federal office eligibility.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Whenever I hear "states rights" my mind immediately translates it to "I'm a racist". I'm not saying you're a racist, just that it makes you sound like one when you invoke "states rights".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I hear the same thing, and I’m not invoking it here as something I believe in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I drop this nugget a lot but basically you’re not wrong. The “states rights” argument is ignorant of history. At best it is a mindless parroting of racist dog whistles and at worst… it’s a racist dog whistle.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could other states follow suit ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

If the Supreme Court overturns it, I'd expect that'd apply to all the states. Basically no other state could leave Trump off the ballot on the basis of the insurrection part of the 14th Amendment.