I mentioned the twist, the conservative justices’ brave 6-3 ruling. The three liberal justices — Sotomayor, Sagan, and Jackson — joined the 9-0
verdict but not its
reasoning. So they wrote their own separate opinion.
Specifically, the liberal Justices disagreed with the majority’s decision that
no state can disqualify Trump. They would have avoided interpreting the Constitutional issue altogether, and would have ruled that
only Colorado was barred from disqualifying Trump:
In other words, the majority’s ruling deleted all the other efforts to bar Trump from ballots in all the other states,
not just Colorado. That may seem sensible to you, but it didn’t make sense to the liberal Justices.
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