If the states are not in control of their own elections as per the Constitution, including who can be on ballots, then who is? The Feds? This from the “states rights” crowd? I agree with Leap in the outcome, though I do admit it will be surprising to many. However, the consequences of the SCOTUS ruling the other way are profound. Ditto on if the president has immunity for everything he/she does in office (which is so blatantly not true one wonders how we got to this point).
I will have a serving of crow. I was wrong. Happens to me often. Happens equally to most of us. Some of us are never wrong. In those cases of never wrong, the circuitry is missing.
The ruling makes sense to me. Otherwise chaos results.
I saw on TV (so taken with a grain of salt), that the SCOTUS said that it was the responsibility of Congress to determine who is on the ballot. This makes absolutely no sense to me.
Constitutional requirements to be president (age, citizenship, terms served, etc.) are legal questions, not political ones.
“Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse,”the justices wrote.
Biden issues an Executive Order removing Spannkee from all ballots due to Spannkee’s violations of federal AND state law(s). Spannkee wanted a Dictator in the White House. Let us see how he likes being subject to just such an order.
It would have no effect. Executive Orders are directives to federal officials. Ballots are administered by state officials. So there’s no EO that Biden could draft that would meaningfully affect the situation.
Plus, the majority holding seems to require Congressional action - so such an EO probably would run afoul of the decision.
It’s already chaos, albeit writ small. Every state has different standards. In some ex-felons can vote, in some they can’t. Some polls are open long, some just for a day. Some nominating is done by caucus, some by primary; some primaries are by party only, some are open. All require different levels of organization to get on the ballot in the first place.
And in this case, the court found insurrection had occurred .
I have to say I am not surprised by the outcome, but am by the reasoning. It isn’t the court’s job to decide “if there will be chaos”, it’s their job to say “what complies with the law as written.”
It appears we are into the “well, this is a better outcome, in spite of what the words say” era. Again.