Thom Tillis, leegill skollar:
"American voters, not partisan activists, should decide who we elect as our president," he added.
Pretty sure the problem with the American system of selecting candidates is that partisan activists control the primary process and do most of the voting there. And American voters get to vote for the results.
Tillis' legislation, titled the Constitutional Election Integrity Act, would prevent federal funds from being used to "administer any election for federal office in a state that has in effect a law or policy to prohibit a candidate for the office of president who is otherwise eligible from appearing on the ballot for such office using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution."
Some portions of the Constitution are more equal than others.
"I would like to point out that they [the Colorado Supreme Court's justices] were so aware of what SCOTUS was about to do in terms of bending over backwards, that they literally quote Neil Gorsuch, Neil Gorsuch when he was sitting in the federal circuit in Colorado," Mystal told MSNBC on Tuesday evening. "They quote Gorsuch for the opinion that Colorado gets to decide its own rules about who's qualified or not for ballot in Colorado."
In a case involving a naturalized American citizen who wanted to run for president, Gorsuch found that Colorado could exclude him because he did not meet the Constitution's natural-born citizen requirement.
"A state's legitimate interest in protecting the integrity and practical functioning of the political process permits it to exclude from the ballot candidates who are constitutionally prohibited from assuming office," Gorsuch wrote in the ruling quoted by the state Supreme Court.
Or not.
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