William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen examine the U.S. Supreme Court’s Trump v. Anderson ruling. In that case, the Colorado Supreme Court had ruled, as a matter of federal constitutional law, that Donald Trump was disqualified from the presidency by Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment, thus rendering him ineligible to the state’s ballot as a matter of Colorado election law. The writers contend that the U.S. Supreme Court failed to deal with the presented issue squarely, choosing instead to simply sweep Section Three “under the rug.” Read more here.
