A High-Risk Legal Effort to Keep Trump Off the Ballot

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Publish Date:

November 9, 2023

Author(s):

Halpern, Sue

Source:

The New Yorker

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Related Organization(s):

Stanford Constitutional Law Center

Summary

This is the position of another prominent conservative jurist, Michael W. McConnell. “We are talking about empowering partisan politicians such as state secretaries of state to disqualify their political opponents from the ballot, depriving voters of the ability to elect candidates of their choice,” McConnell has said. “If abused, this is profoundly anti-democratic.”