Federalism

• Colorado’s highest court relied on the provision in a December 2023 ruling that the state could bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot because they determined he committed insurrection.
• “Why should a single state have the ability to make this determination, not only for their own citizens, but for the rest of the nation?” asked liberal Justice Elena Kagan on Feb. 8.
• The Conversation’s senior politics and democracy editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with Notre Dame election law scholar Derek Muller after the oral arguments.

• The Supreme Court was very skeptical that, as an institution, it should be the one responsible for deciding this deeply contested question, and it seemed skeptical that the state of Colorado could do this on its own without some congressional guidance or authorization.
• The justices did not appear to be divided and partisan in their discussion of the case.
• On the whole, they seemed inclined to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court.
• And Colorado was leaning very heavily into this authority they have over which candidates to list on the ballot and how that can vary from state to state.

• Federalism is a way of thinking about the proper allocation of authority between the federal government and state governments.
• But in other places the federal government has the final say, or the federal government is the one with the authority to make these determinations.
• And when it came to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, when you have these messy, contested disputes, should this happen on a state-by-state basis?
• The court seemed inclined to think that this is something better left to Congress, rather than states unilaterally interpreting Section 3 on their own.
• So a decision in the direction the court appears to be going in has the virtue of allowing the political process to play out.

I filed an amicus curiae brief in support of neither party in this case.

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• Taking account of depreciation/amortisation, financing costs and taxes,
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