We cats were not very invested in the throw-Trump-off-the-ballot-in-Colorado case that the Supreme Court decided yesterday. It was amusing that the original effort was spearheaded by Republicans — just more proof of the party's fractured state — but federalism, we assumed, would prevail.
Maddening, however, that states' rights really mattered to the Supremes when it came to women's bodily autonomy. So, hypocrisy abounds. But voters have the chance to rectify that this November.
And it was also silly that the right-wing justices, minus Barrett, took an unnecessary step farther into the weeds of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, something the liberal justices bitch-slapped them for in their (mostly) concurrence. Still, that's something we can all refocus on down the road. Let's make sure in the meantime that no more insurrections happen if we can.
To that end, then, it's a relief that the 2024 election has just dodged a little more chaos for now. Benedict Donald has injected enough of it into the process already, and he promises to foment more. If he remains on state ballots while his criminal trials get sorted out, it will be one less accusation for him to fling when he loses in November (assuming that, mentally, he makes it that far). He won't be able to say the election was rigged because a patchwork of states — states he probably wasn't going to win anyway — shut him out.
It also means that nutcase Republicans in red states lose their opportunity to try to throw Biden-Harris off their ballots. You know they'd try it. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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