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It's a trash opinion though for the reasons the 3 liberal Justices point out. Buried under the headline of "unanimous ruling Colorado can't DQ federal office candidates" is a shadow 5-4 decision where 5 conservatives do their level best to make it as difficult as possible for the insurrection clause to be enforced when there is just plainly no need to do so and it outright contradicts both the text of the amendment and historical use.

I also happen to disagree with the reasoning all 9 seem to settle on with handwringing about how if States could enforce Section 3 you'd have patchworks of states with different candidates allowed and not allowed under different standards and like... as I said when they had oral arguments on this - they're literally describing our current electoral system. That's what it fucking is already. But what those 5 conservative Justices did was somehow an order of magnitude worse.