just imagine how this precedent could be used by the right against a left-leaning candidate.
This is what worries me. If all you need to ban a candidate is the low bar of preponderance of evidence, then I don’t understand what prevents Republicans from using this precedent and wielding their 27 (!) state supreme court majorities to bar all candidates except Trump.
Trump factually engaged in insurrection, but this case sets the bar for proving it so low that Republicans are going use this precedent to push lawsuits in every state and ban every candidate they don’t like in any office they want over spurious claims of disloyalty.
This is what worries me. If all you need to ban a candidate is the low bar of preponderance of evidence, then I don’t understand what prevents Republicans from using this precedent and wielding their 27 (!) state supreme court majorities to bar all candidates except Trump.
Trump factually engaged in insurrection, but this case sets the bar for proving it so low that Republicans are going use this precedent to push lawsuits in every state and ban every candidate they don’t like in any office they want over spurious claims of disloyalty.