Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot, rejecting state attempts to ban him over Capitol attack

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Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot, rejecting state attempts to ban him over Capitol attack - Lemmy.ca

Time to violently storm the Supreme Court, then. After all, they approve.

This is a shit take. This ruling is not saying “Trump did nothing wrong”, this is specifically saying “States cannot unilaterally decide to remove federal election candidates from ballots”, which I completely agree with. As others have noted, it would open the doors to so much bullshit if this were allowed.

The SC could come out tomorrow and say “We’re disqualifying Trump”, this doesn’t preclude that.

States remove federal election candidates for eligibility reasons all the time. Trump is yet again getting special treatment.

[citation needed]

List one federal candidate a state successfully removed (that wasn’t convicted in a federal court, or died before the election.)

inquirer.com/…/green-party-presidential-candidate…

The Green Party, 2020 election. State supreme Court removed them from the presidential election ballot for errors in paperwork that… Are honestly entirely bureaucratic nightmare to read.

Not the first or last time there have been state based hearings in court to remove candidates especially Green Party. States decide their own ballots all the time. Heck apparently now is a great time to add your name to a federal election ballot since you can’t be removed by the state.

We should make the ballot 12 pages long with every single vague or minor party enforcing they can’t have their name removed running for any federal position.

The Green Party’s presidential candidate is off the ballot in a big win for Pennsylvania Democrats

Democrats in Pennsylvania succeeded Thursday in bouncing Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins from the Nov. 3 ballot.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Heck apparently now is a great time to add your name to a federal election

Nah, I’ll just write it in. My wife still likes me, so maybe I can get two votes.

Hey I’m actually trying to have the conversation you apparently wanted. I get you are, I guess, done with that notion.
So I’m just gonna point out this waste of a comment. You’d be better off just ignoring the people who try to legitimately add rather than just adding a wasted joke and delegitimizing your position further.

It’s literally moot at this point. Internet lawyers arguing constitutional law when SCOTUS has made a (unanimous decision) on the matter is just people blowing off steam.

If you agree with the decision (I do), trying to change someone’s mind (who doesn’t) is probably not going to happen.

You’ve been reasoned in your disagreement. I appreciate that.