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It’s hard to actually change the Constitution, but it’s not hard to interpret the Constitution however you want to. It’s not hard for the USSC to overrule prior USSC decisions. All you need is for 5 of them to interpret the Constitution in such a way as to let Trump do whatever he wants to do. There was no real legal basis for them not to affirm the Colorado Supreme Court decision that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment prohibited Trump from running for elected office again. But they found a very weak loophole that hinged on a specific interpretation of Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, and did it anyway. They could easily have interpreted Section 5 a different way and said that Congress did not have the exclusive power to enforce Section 3, and had they done that we wouldn’t be here. Another J6 mob would have attacked the Supreme Court building, and the Justices would have received death threats, and a series lawsuits to remove Biden from the ballot would have been filed immediately, but they still could have ruled that way had they wanted to. The Colorado and the amicus briefs were airtight. Lawyers are trained to argue both sides of any issue. So are Justices.

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