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”Writing for a three-judge panel in 2012, Gorsuch dismissed the idea that Colorado was required to place Abdul Karim Hassan’s name on the presidential ballot even if he was ineligible to assume the presidency. A state’s “legitimate interest in protecting the integrity and practical functioning of the political process,” Gorsuch wrote, “permits it to exclude from the ballot candidates who are constitutionally prohibited from assuming office.”
What Gorsuch was saying, in other words, is states are empowered to assess a candidate’s eligibility for an office and strike them from the ballot if they don’t meet the criteria for holding office.

With that being said, I’m guessing our supposedly “originalist, textualist, Constitutionalist” SCOTUS will weasel out of this one somehow, thus utterly diminishing their credibility as such, which ain’t gonna help gun rights any down the road. But we’ll see.

On some level, I gotta say, it’s morbidly amusing watching Trumpy folks tie themselves into absurd knots defending the [bleep] clown in direct contraction to supposed prior “principles”. Present company most definitely included. But this is the world we live in.