Supreme Court rules states CAN'T disqualify adjudicated insurrectionist Donald Trump from ballots - Glenn Kirschner

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The United States Supreme Court just dealt American democracy a gut-punch, ruling that even after a state trial court and Supreme Court rules that a person engaged in insurrection against the Untied States, state election authorities CANNOT keep that person off the state presidential primary ballot.

But all is not lost: the Supreme Court said there's a remedy . . . Congress can legislate and come up with a statutory scheme by which insurrectionists CAN be kept out of federal office. What are the real-world implications of that kind of Supreme Court ruling? The court puts the disqualification issue in the hands of people like Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (who fought to have Donald Trump remain in office in 2020 contrary the expressed will of the American voters), and in the hands of people like Jim Jordan and James Comer and Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene. These are the people the Supreme Court has empowered to disqualify insurrectionists form holding federal office.

But let's not forget, several members of Congress sought presidential pardons for their conduct on and around January 6, 2021, supporting the inference that they, themselves, are insurrectionists. Do we really expect them to work against their own interest in retaining power?

This video reviews the folly of today's Supreme Court ruling. - Glenn Kirschner - 03/04/2024.