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    Trump is on the ballot in all fifty states because SCOTUS decided that states don’t get to apply 14A S3, even though 100% of the operation of federal elections is constitutionally granted to the states.

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      Ahhh you see the mistake you made there is a common one. You read it. This SCOTUS is more of a “whatever heritage foundation wants” vibes based court.

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        Like all conservatives, SCOTUS has the outcome they want to reach, and will use whatever means they can to justify it regardless of what the evidence is. Like abortion, or immigration, or universal health care, or government regulations, or religion, or…

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          It’s funny how we’ve heard the GOP whine about ‘activist judges’ for decades and it turned out it was just projection all along…

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        So-called “originalist” judges rub their hands together and do that evil grin when they get a chance to reinterpret laws in ways that benefit their political allies.