'Appalling!': Historians torch Supreme Court's handling of Trump ballot case

Lawrence O'Donnell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSgQU7jthDM

Here we have two eminent American historians, David Blight and Drew Gilpin Faust, discussing how thoroughly Supreme Court justices got the historical part of their deliberations wrong. This was so striking that I commented on it DURING ORAL ARGUMENTS.

This Supreme Court hearing calls to mind a passage in a Sherlock Holmes film. Not sure if it is in the Arthur Conan Doyle original. Holmes was examining an object of deep interest to him, when Dr. Watson walked in. Holmes handed over the item and asked Watson what he observed of it. Watson gave what sounded like a reasonably thorough list of the object's details and then asked, "Have I missed anything?" Sherlock Holmes replied, "Only everything of any importance."

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https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/-appalling-historians-torch-supreme-court-s-handling-of-trump-ballot-case-203917893596

The [14th} amendment’s authors, they argue, “hoped not only to prevent a resurgence of secessionism but also to protect future generations against insurrectionism.” It was intended “to bar anyone who has betrayed an oath to uphold the Constitution from becoming President of the United States.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/04/trump-ballot-disqualified-14th-amendment/ (gifted)

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