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...in two states that Trump never would have won anyway. It's absolutely the right thing to do and I hope more states follow suit as ultimately that would force the GOP to kick Trump off the ballot as well.
*Thirteen.
Colorado, Michigan, Hew Hampshire, Arizona, West Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Nevada, Montana, Kansas, Idaho, Oklahoma, Wyoming.
As a North Carolinian, I can report that our state judiciary is a joke and we're gerrymandered to fuck and back, so there's very little hope of fixing it anytime soon. Odds of Trump being kicked off the ballot here are infinity to one against.
The aim is to get the question of disqualification under 14A S3 answered. And perhaps the subtext is to make them say the quiet part out loud.
All it's going to take is one state court anywhere to find that Trump is not qualified to hold office. Then the appeals process starts, and it probably gets fast-tracked to SCOTUS. In order to find that one state court, you file in every state you can find standing in, because every case filed has a chance to be taken up by the court (FL found no standing, if you recall), every case taken up by a court has a chance of winning.
Just a numbers game.
That does not give me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Wouldn't surprise me to see that totally backfire for Trump's opponents once it gets to the SCOTUS level.
McConnell and RBG have seriously fucked things up for the next few decades, sadly.
What did Justice Ginsberg do here except work until almost her death?
But yeah: if they can't get justice Clearance Thomas off the bench and break the politically-fixated court of its partiality problems, then we're screwed.
Don't take people's vote, and don't rob them of justice, lest there be cars flipped and burning in the street.
She could have retired in the middle of the Obama admin, so he could appoint a not-nazi judge.