Polman: Court read what Constitution clearly says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : States have the right to conduct their own elections, and conservatives supposedly believe in state's rights.
50% : He wrote that a state's legitimate interest "permits it to exclude from the ballot candidates who are constitutionally prohibited from assuming office."Let's see if our highest court can find a way to steer around that.David Frum, the sane conservative commentator, writes: "The U.S. Supreme Court now has the opportunity to offer Republicans an exit from their Trump predicament, in time to let some non-insurrectionist candidate win the Republican nomination and contest the presidency...back to a race where the Biden-Harris ticket faces more or less normal opponents, rather than an ex-president who openly yearns to be a dictator."
48% : However, "We are likewise mindful of our solemn duty to apply the law, without fear or favor, and without being swayed by public reaction to the decisions that the law mandates we reach.
30% : And the most dire predictions - violent street riots if Trump was ever indicted - never came true.
26% : Shortly after the Colorado Supreme Court declared in an explosive ruling that Donald Trump can't appear on the state's 2024 ballot because he's an insurrectionist, one of the former president's flacks fumed in predictable fashion about "George Soros" and "Crooked Joe Biden" and a judicial plot that's "un-American."
20% : Conclusion: "President Trump incited and encouraged the use of violence and lawless action to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power (on Jan. 6).

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