By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post, Feb. 12, 2024
The tone and direction of the justices’ questions during last Thursday’s oral arguments in the Trump-Colorado case were telling.
What gives Colorado the right to decide the presidency for the rest of the nation?
That seemed to be the sentiment last Thursday not only of the Supreme Court’s conservatives but also its liberals, as the Court heard oral arguments on whether Colorado could invoke the 14th Amendment’s Civil War-era “disqualification” clause to bar Donald Trump from its presidential primary ballot.
Indeed, some of the toughest questions came from Obama appointee Elena Kagan and Biden appointee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Only the dimmest bulb among the justices, Sonia Sotomayor, seemed inclined to rule in favor of Colorado. …