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What Will the Consequences Be for the Partisan Ballot-Access Antics?

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A general view of the Colorado Supreme Court in Denver, Colo., December 20, 2023

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A bit before the holidays, I appeared on Hugh Hewitt’s radio program, and the host predicted the U.S. Supreme Court would strike down the Colorado supreme court’s decision barring Trump from the ballot in that state, 9–0. Appearing on Fox News, Hugh predicted that the state supreme court majority “will be scorned for decades because of this”:

It seems safe to assume that a court that doesn’t find the Colorado supreme court decision to be constitutional and valid will not be any more sympathetic to the arguments of Maine secretary of state Shenna Bellows.

Jim Geraghty

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Jim Geraghty

Jim Geraghty is the senior political correspondent of National Review.

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