What the Supreme Court Will Do With Trump's Colorado Ballot Disqualification

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Trump's not going to be on the primary ballot in January unless the case is appealed to SCOTUS, in which case I guess he will be.Walk us through this case.
43% : There's your vehicle, if you want a vehicle and a rule of law for getting Trump off the ballot via Section 3 of the 14 Amendment.
35% : I've spent the hours since reading the opinion, reading the opinion makers, and there are such interesting splits amongst a community of people who really think about Donald Trump and insurrection.
34% : The Supreme Court of Colorado found that yes, it is meant to include the president, and by the way, Donald Trump did participate in an insurrection on Jan. 6, and therefore he cannot be on the primary ballot for the Republican Party in a few weeks.
34% : I think there's some folks who are saying that Donald Trump will wait until the last possible second to appeal it.
34% : If this is the case, and then they need to be taken off the ballot, a five-day bench trial to determine whether or not somebody committed insurrection does not seem like a particularly -- and the dissent said this too, whatever we think of what happened on Jan. 6 and what Donald Trump did on Jan. 6 -- it does not seem like a high enough bar.
33% : And the Colorado Supreme Court, which is made up of seven judges -- and all seven judges were appointed by Democrats -- agreed to this idea and ruled in favor of keeping Trump off the ballot by the slimmest possible 4-3 margin, which means you had three Democratic-appointed justices who thought that this was bad as a matter of constitutional law and just a bad idea.
26% : The consequences of this actually are quite real and quite significant because if Donald Trump was not on the ballot of a single state and on all other 49 ballots, that would just cause so much chaos.
25% : Or that the House of Representatives is going to look at this and say, "Donald Trump ran a campaign even though he was forbidden from the ballot; he got so many write-in votes, they were counted, and we're just going to ignore that and allow Joe Biden to retain the presidency"?
24% : Donald Trump was not charged with that statute.
22% : That was that this was a five-day bench trial that determined that Donald Trump committed insurrection.
20% : Donald Trump thrives in chaos.
20% : Donald Trump thrives in chaos.
18% : Which of the shock-wave cases they're gonna take and which they're going to, um, use, if any, to be the reason that Donald Trump doesn't get to be the president.
14% : So it's almost impossible to see Donald Trump not actually appearing on the primary ballot.
14% : A lot of people think this is the worst possible way to get Donald Trump out of the running for the Republican primary.
14% : Do we think that the Texas lieutenant governor is going to listen to a Supreme Court that says "Don't count write-in votes for Donald Trump -- we forbid you to do it"?

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