“It’s a strange, sprawling opinion,” said William Baude, a University of Chicago #law prof & a fmr clerk to #ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts. “It’s hard to tell what exactly it is trying to do.”

Others said the ruling was untethered from the law. “It’s certainly not really tied to the #Constitution,” said Stephen R. McAllister, a law prof at University of Kansas & fmr clerk to Justice #ClarenceThomas.

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#ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts’s Unsigned Opinion

…In Feb, the justices heard arguments on a provocative question. The #Constitution’s #FourteenthAmendment, adopted after the Civil War, contains language barring #insurrectionists from holding office. So could #Colorado kick #Trump off the ballot in its #Republican primary, creating an obstacle for his presidential campaign?

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From the start of the justices’ private discussions of the case, #TrumpvAnderson, it was clear that the court was going to say no…. Allowing states to excise candidates from ballots in a national #election was out of the question, the justices agreed. With sparse & cryptic text in the amendment, & little case #law, to guide them, they raised various ideas for the court’s ruling & rationale.

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#SCOTUS’ #conservative supermajority has prevailed in many of the most consequential cases in recent years. This time, #ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts told his colleagues he wanted the decision to be unanimous & unsigned. In any politically charged case, agreement among the justices made the decision more authoritative. He even said he would consult individually w/everyone to discuss what they would accept — a rare step.

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While all 9 justices agreed that #Trump should remain on state ballots, 4 of the conservatives were pushing to go beyond that & rule that the #Constitution’s prohibition would require congressional action. Such a decision would provide even greater protection for Trump: To prevent him from taking office if he won re-election, #Congress would have to vote to enforce the #insurrectionist ban.

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@volkris Best of luck learning all there is to know.

Today I'm picking up the textbooks and copying the notes from the "Power" class (from an award-winning student with a 3.93 GPA) offered at the University of Chicago. He's studying law and is carefully calculating his course of study to run for office.

Maybe I'll have a chance to let you know how that goes.

@volkris My point is American Conservatism isn't just fucked up, it's fucking the rest of us up. Not engaging it in ways that interfere with basic self-preservation may just be the smart thing to do.

Capitalism makes men beat their wives and children. The stochastic terrorism and pervasive hand-washing inherent in US conservatism needs to fucking stop.

In the mean time, this single mom plans to survive.

@janisf what in the world?

How does capitalism make men beat their wives and children? How do they profit off of that?

@volkris It's fairly well known abuse is more common in low-income environments, while profitable companies are generally able to secure cheap labor.

Stress about finances is by far the number one stressor reported by patients who present with stress-related disease, the US's top killers.

For real, that's that unfathomable to you?

Again, UChicago (home of Milton Freedman) https://www.capitalisnt.com

@janisf You’re not looking at the causality though.

Unfathomable? No. It’s exactly within what I’m saying here.

I fathom it actively! And I think you’re missing it.