Donald Trump
Ilya Somin | 9.16.2024 9:17 PM
The final published version of my article "A Lost Opportunity to Protect Democracy Against Itself: What the Supreme Court Got Wrong in Trump v. Anderson" (Cato Supreme Court Review) is now up on SSRN, and available for downloading. Here is the abstract:
In Trump v. Anderson, a divided Supreme Court achieved unusual unanimity in an important case. All nine Justices agreed that state governments could not use Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to disqualify former President Donald Trump from running for the presidency in the 2024 election. Section 3, the majority ruled, is not self-enforcing. Unfortunately, the Court achieved unanimity by making a........