• agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Judge James Robert Redford of the Court of Claims in Michigan said that the disqualification of a candidate through the 14th Amendment “is a nonjusticiable, political” issue and that it was up to Congress, and not the courts, to settle the matter.

    Basically he said insurrection can’t be defined by the court system…

    Sounds a lot like passing the buck. Or taking a page out of the SCOTUS playbook.

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      1 year ago

      If the court can’t define it, that just means they can’t argue with whatever definition the state government uses.