Opinion: The Supreme Court just made it harder to defend democracy | CNN

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Using states' rights reasoning of "state action" and the state's "police powers," the Supreme Court left Black Americans to the tender mercies of ex-Confederates, who inaugurated a regime of disenfranchisement, Jim Crow, convict lease labor, debt peonage (which it finally outlawed in 1905) and racial terror.
52% : While correctly pointing out that the 14th Amendment restricted state autonomy, the high court again erred in claiming that the "Constitution empowers Congress to prescribe how those determinations should be made."
49% : Get Our Free Weekly NewsletterSign up for CNN Opinion's newsletter Join us on Twitter and FacebookOnly relatively recently has the Supreme Court upheld the equal protections of the 14thAmendment to dismantle Jim Crow and establish gay marriage and reproductive rights for women.
49% : Just as the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause for freed people was misused by the courts during the Gilded Age to protect corporations from government regulation, the only time Sec3 was implemented was when it was misused against Socialist Party representative Victor Berger, who opposed the First World War.
36% : In ruling that Trump should stay on the presidential ballot of 2024, the Supreme Court has delivered a mortal blow to Section 3 that basically eviscerates its power altogether.
33% : She signed an amicus brief of historians in Trump v. Anderson.
32% : The Supreme Court was united on the idea that Trump will remain on the ballot in Colorado and that the state cannot remove him off its ballot.
32% : In their decision, the Supreme Court made no attempt to decide whether Trump and his followers did engage in an insurrection or not.
29% : On Monday, the Supreme Court decided unanimously that Trump is not disqualified from the presidential ballot.
28% : The Colorado Supreme Court, in Trump v. Anderson, had upheld Trump's disqualification per Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, but the high court baldly rejected that: "Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse."
26% : The secretaries of state of Maine and of Illinois had also evoked this amendment clause in their attempt to remove Trump from the states' ballots.
24% : Just as this decision allows Trump to be on the presidential ballots of all states, upholding the 14th Amendment disqualification would have meant his removal from the presidential ballots of all states.
24% : "The Supreme Court heard this case on appeal from the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court, which in Trump v. Anderson, a case brought by Colorado voters, ruled that Trump is disqualified from the presidential ballot under Section 3.
22% : Trump, of course, vehemently denies this charge and claims executive immunity from all wrongdoing.
22% : If Colorado and Maine can remove Trump from the ballot, why would red states not do the same to President Joe Biden, they mused.
21% : While many of the insurrectionists have been tried for their actions during January 6th, Trump is still on trial for this act of supreme betrayal to his oath of office and other alleged criminal misdoings.
11% : Unlike Trump, President Biden faces no such automatic, self-executing constitutional disqualification nationally.
7% : Historians and legal scholars, who submitted amicus briefs to SCOTUS in Trump v. Anderson, overwhelmingly agreed on Trump's disqualification, citing copious amounts of evidence from the framers of the amendment and congressional debates.

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