#SCOTUS ‘has effectively replaced a very high bar for allowing insurrectionists… a supermajority [of] Congress—with the lowest bar imaginable… inaction’ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/opinion/supreme-court-trump-colorado-constitution.html
2/3rds of states or a constitutional convention after a bloody civil war to write the amendment. One billionaire’s bribe to erase it. #SCOTUS
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@vij no, it's the opposite: the Court *supported* the amendment's grant of power to Congress while pushing back against the idea that states could rise up and interfere in federal processes like that.
It's BECAUSE of a bloody civil war that states were somewhat disempowered here.
The Court upheld that principle.
