• dhork@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I did a quick read on the NYT. And it sounds like the Court is saying that states are free to use that clause to disqualify candidates for State office, but cannot use it to disqualify candidates for national office. Only the Federal government has that power. So the place to enforce this would be in the counting of EC votes, for instance. Or, with Congress passing a law to that effect. It looks like the “self-executing” argument went nowhere.

    The 3 Liberal justices agreed with the ruling but it looks like they thought it should be narrower.