In U.S. Supreme Court hearing, justices question legal ground for rem…

Interestingly, the justices didn’t debate whether Trump, himself, engaged in insurrection; instead the case will turn on more technical constitutional arguments.

Based on the arguments made Tuesday, the Justices could rule that Section 3 doesn’t apply to Trump, or to the presidency as a whole; that Colorado’s courts don’t have the authority to disqualify federal candidates; or that Colorado was indeed in the right when its high court found Trump ineligible to run.

The Justices seemed particularly skeptical of Colorado’s legal authority to disqualify a presidential candidate, since it would give a single state the authority to skew a national election, and create disunity among states on enforcement. 

“I would expect that a goodly number of states will say, ‘Whoever the Democratic candidate is, you’re off the ballot,’ and others, for the Republican candidate, ‘You’re off the ballot.’ And it’ll come down to just a handful of states that are going to decide the…