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re: Wednesday or other SCOTUS experts, is this a trap?

Posted on 12/19/23 at 7:52 pm to
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
102174 posts
Posted on 12/19/23 at 7:52 pm to
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Elections are state issues


Yes, and no. This is not about the mechanisms of the voting process, but candidate qualifications.

In that regard, federal elections are federal.

Also, this was an application of Federal Law (Constitution [14th Amendment]).
Posted by BobBoucher
Member since Jan 2008
17289 posts
Posted on 12/19/23 at 7:58 pm to
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This is not about the mechanisms of the voting process, but candidate qualifications. In that regard, federal elections are federal.


Exactly. Each state can’t have its own candidate qualification criteria.

Otherwise you’d never get a candidate to appear on all 50 ballots.

That’s why this is doomed at SCOTUS.

What will be great will be the epic bitch-slapping in their opinion.

Can’t wait to read it and the ensuing melts from progs and demands to pack the court.
Posted by VOR
Member since Apr 2009
64407 posts
Posted on 12/20/23 at 8:01 am to
Yes, candidate qualification to hold the office of President is federal.The states must apply the requirements when putting names on the ballot.
Posted by Swamp Angel
Georgia
Member since Jul 2004
7821 posts
Posted on 12/20/23 at 8:49 am to
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Yes, and no. This is not about the mechanisms of the voting process, but candidate qualifications.

In that regard, federal elections are federal.

Also, this was an application of Federal Law (Constitution [14th Amendment]).


You're pretty close with this assessment, but in truth there are NO Federal elections. All elections are coordinated by the states. However, you are 100% correct in asserting that the 14th Amendment is a federal issue and, if the states cannot act to curb illegal immigration because it is a federal issue, neither can they act upon a 14th Amendment issue in this regard. Furthermore, Trump has not been tried and found guilty of sedition so using the 14th Amendment argument is a failure on that ground as well.

Colorado done f***ed up with this one. Showing their true colors. Colorado is a Red state in the same way the Bolsheviks were Red.
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