Sidney Blumenthal on how the Colorado Supreme Court ruling provokes a crisis of legitimacy for the US Supremes and for "the entire conservative methodology":
"The conundrum for the court is that it can rescue Trump only by shredding originalism and textualism. There is no more originalist and textualist case to be made than this one."
#SupremeCourt #Colorado #Trump #Constitution #originalism
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/26/trump-us-supreme-court-crisis
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