“The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Thursday in an extraordinary case that could alter the course of the presidential election by deciding whether former President Donald Trump’s conduct in trying to subvert the 2020 race made him ineligible to hold office again,” the New York Times reports.
“Not since Bush v. Gore, the 2000 decision that handed the presidency to George W. Bush, has the Supreme Court assumed such a direct role in the outcome of a presidential contest.”
Playbook: “The most common view is that the justices, or at least the conservative majority, hate this case and are enormously uncomfortable with having to decide such a politically fraught issue as whether or not the likely Republican nominee is eligible to hold office. It then follows that they will strive to craft the narrowest possible decision, one that preserves the status quo (Trump can run) without making any groundbreaking precedents.”
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