Today is Tuesday, March the 5th, 2024.

Welcome to the Daily Article podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article, written by Dr. Jim Denison.

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states lack the power to reject presidential candidates on the grounds that they engaged in

insurrection or rebellion against the U.S. This decision restores former President Donald

Trump's name to the Colorado ballot and in similar challenges to his candidacy elsewhere.

I'm not making a partisan statement by expressing my gratitude that the ruling was nine to zero.

Given the acrimony surrounding the court in particular and our politics in general,

such unanimity is welcome.

In our system of governance, the Supreme Court is our final legal authority.

The founders envisioned a court free from partisan entanglements, so they invested

the justices with unelected lifetime tenures. However, they knew that the members would be nominated

by presidents who espoused and represented political groups and agendas, so they required the

nominees to be confirmed by the Senate in the U.S. Constitution, Article 2,

Section 2. Such confirmation historically required a 60-vote supermajority,

hopefully ensuring some level of bipartisan support for the candidate.

But the threshold was lowered to a simple majority in recent years.

This simple majority confirmed three of President Trump's nominees,

giving the court a six to three conservative majority

and incurring significant backlash from Democrats,

only 24% of whom now view the Supreme Court favorably.

For their part, many Republicans view the numerous court cases

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