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SCOTUS Rejects Case Disqualifying Trump From Running
They were asked to rule on standing
Be still my beating heart. SCOTUS just declined to hear a case involving Trump’s eligibility to be on the 2024 ballot. No reason given. The justices don’t have to give a reason when they reject a case.
My initial excitement that they may have rejected it because the states control elections and they don’t want to mess with elections was for naught. The case they rejected was one of standing. The case was initially brought by one John Anthony Castro, who is a candidate for the Republican nomination.
I wrote about him and his case here.
Castro filed suit to prevent Trump from appearing on the 2024 ballot and cited Section 3 of the 14th Amendment which disqualifies anyone who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution and then goes on to “engage in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
As we all know, Trump is guilty of both engaging in an insurrection and giving aid and comfort to the insurrectionists.
A lower court threw out Castro’s case saying that he didn’t have standing. In his petition to SCOTUS, Castro said:
“A primary candidate has judicial…
