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Tarb's avatar

This post was a surprise--given how you've previously written about the question of whether the disqualification clause applies to the president, I was expecting your next article to be about the Colorado lawsuit.

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Mike W's avatar

My ignorance is showing here… but this series of events confuses me when comparing them to everything that happened in the Trump Disqualification case. In THAT case, interested parties joined in the defense to make sure the defense was ‘of quality’ and essentially joined in on getting sued. I was confused by why someone would do that and you had assured me that it might sound odd but that it does serve a purpose in certain instances. Jump cut to THIS case and it seems like that exact same thing was happening but they weren’t allowed to join in on the defense?

In your detailed breakdown of the MOMS group at the end it kind of seems like they didn’t try to join until after the case was already decided (which does make me feel like that specific group is correct to be declined the ability to join a contest that has already concluded) but you also reference other groups who tried to join but weren’t allowed to for <other reasons>?

So what’s the deal? Presumably the same underlying political currents that wanted this law to be nullified also wanted Trump disqualified formally from presidential eligibility.

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