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Sympthsical

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3. It was a 9-0 ruling in the case

Reply to B.See (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 12:52 AM

Dec 2025

I doubt Kagan, Sotomayor, or Jackson are MAGA henchmen upholding a right-wing agenda.

It was a dumb gambit, people said so at the time, but a few politicians and law types who enjoy social media (and regular media) attention gassed everyone up about it.

In their concurrence, the three liberal justices wrote, "It would defy logic for Section 3 to give States new powers to determine who may hold the Presidency."

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It was a 9-0 ruling in the case Sympthsical Dec 2025 #3