re: LIVE (*now adjourned*): Supreme Court hearing case on Trump's Colorado ballot eligibility

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if Trump's team loses this, the country is done.

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The precedent that would be set here is that state governments, not the electorate, can decide who is allowed to run in elections.

Conservative states can ban Democrats, progressive states can ban Republicans, for no other reason than “because”.

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if Trump's team loses this, the country is done

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That ship sailed when the federal government sued one of the fifty states for taking steps to protect itself from a foreign invasion when fedgov chose not to do so.