In Maine, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' ruling deeming Trump was not qualified for the state's Republican primary ballot, she cited an argument then-US Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch — Trump's first SCOTUS appointee — made in 2012 regarding a candidate who was disqualified from the ballot in Colorado.
Any bets on where Gorsuch is gonna go this time around?
#disqualification
#SCOTUS
https://www.alternet.org/trump-justice-disqualify-candidates/
@daveystew my bet is that he'd simply say the state didn't follow a legal procedure for excluding and/or that Trump isn't constitutionally prohibited.
There wouldn't be any contradiction there.
Yes, the state can exclude candidates. But it has to follow the rules. And these states didn't follow their rules in excluding candidates.
