Whether it was the Mueller investigation, the impeachments, or, now, the Colorado Supreme Court decision to throw him off the ballot, lefties have spent the better part of the last seven years attempting to manifest the end of former President Donald Trump. It has not worked.
Nobody knows yet whether, when taken up by the Supreme Court, this ruling will be smacked down. Yet a hefty chunk of the mainstream media reaction to the Colorado decision has been impressively aware of how flimsy the legal logic is.
It is at least heartening to see some level of collective awareness that these are not the means by which Trump should lose; a regular old election is the way we tend to handle this, and for good reason.
"I am disturbed about the potential chaos wrought by an imprudent, unconstitutional, and standardless system in which each state gets to adjudicate Section Three disqualification cases on an ad hoc basis," wrote Colorado Supreme Court Justice Carlos Samour Jr. in his dissent. "Surely, this enlargement of state power is antithetical to the framers' intent."
"To deny the voters the chance to elect the candidate of their choice is a Rubicon-crossing event for the judiciary," wrote New York magazine's Jonathan Chait. "It would be seen forever by tens of millions of Americans as a negation of democracy."
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