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please forget I said anything. So, Donald Trump booted from the ballot.

Colorado Supreme Court in a four-3 decision this week declared Donald Trump ineligible for

ballot access because of his alleged participation in insurrection.

Cited a very novel legal theory which was first experimented with in journals just this year

maintaining that section 3 of the Constitution's 14th Amendment bars those who engaged in rebellion from holding elected office.

Charlie, he wrote about the deficiencies of the legal rationale here and on a variety of state-level courts have taken a look at this and found no substance to it, but Colorado did. Where do you think they went wrong?

Well, as you know, I have in my endless quest to annoy everyone, have been dissatisfied both with the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court and with some of the criticisms of it. I am dissatisfied with the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court because I think it makes a bunch of jumps in its evaluation of the relevant definitions and the original public meaning of those definitions

in a way that it shouldn't do per se and that it especially shouldn't do when the subject is so

weighty and I've been annoyed with some of the criticisms of the Colorado Supreme

Court because they have boiled down to the idea

that it is intrinsically undemocratic for a court to interpret the Constitution in any way that

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