SCOTUS refused to entertain Trump's election lie. Don't be so certain they will be friendly to him this time. I hate the current SCOTUS, but they can surprise you sometimes.

or D, an obscure quote from the Old Testament about the power of Kings and their scepters and orbs and whatnot

They will probably pass it back to the states. It's not like the blue states were going to vote for Trump anyways, and the "unfairness" of it will probably boost him in purple and red states.

Unlike other republicans who are at the whim of trump, the Supreme Court can’t really be touched and don’t have to bow down to him while still being shitty republicans.

The Supreme Court doesn't really have any say in how states run their elections. That's the only wrinkle I see on this. If they tried to dictate state elections, states could just ignore it.

The 14th amendment also guarantees the right to seek medical treatment. Yet women are denied this right.

precedent! a ruling here could be used in a non hostile state!

Note that this applies to the primary also, so it might damage him by encouraging his Republican challengers to stay in the race.

It would certainly be interesting to see the long-term ramifications if they tried.

Colorado is seemingly a cool state to be in. I'd really consider moving there lately.

I’m not too sure about that. I think it’s pretty open and shut and scotus can’t do anything about it.

Case law has found time and again that states can decide their own election laws, and that the federal government cannot override that except in the most egregious cases.

But the very cases where they chose to defer were huge, election changing cases, like Bush v Gore and the VRA.

I don’t think they can even issue a stay without doing the exact same thing. The current stay is through the 4th because CO law says they have to set the ballots by Jan 5. So even issuing a stay would be the feds overstepping the bounds.

Overstepping their own bounds in fact, since people still on this court decided those cases, and Gorsuch actually ruled on this same Colorado law in favor of CO having the right to control its own ballot.

What this means is very possible sweep in CO, because if Trump isn’t on the ballot, that will hurt turnout which would flip some new areas blue. That’s the entire downticket from senators to dogcatchers.

It won't take 50 to ensure he loses, thankfully.

And the Stargate program

How does that work, legally speaking? Have we ever had a President in the past century that had states that didn't allow them on the ballot? Outside of having to go all the way back to like Lincoln times.

It hurts republican downballot candidates tho. There's gonna be a number of Trump voters who won't show up if he's not on the ballot and they would have been straight ticket republican votes.

Also this sets a big precedent.