During the Supreme Court hearing on Trump’s primary ballot eligibility in Colorado, Chief Justice John Roberts expressed his concern about the consequences of banning Donald Trump from the ballot.
Roberts wondered if other states would go on to remove candidates they didn’t like.
“Counsel, what do you do with the, what seem to me to be the plain consequences of your position?” Roberts asked Jason Murray, the attorney for Colorado voters. “If Colorado’s position is upheld, surely there will be disqualification proceedings on the other side, and some of those will succeed … I would expect that a goodly number of states will say, whomever the Democratic candidate is, you’re off the ballot.”
“That’s a pretty daunting consequence,” the chief justice said.
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