• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    States remove federal election candidates for eligibility reasons all the time. Trump is yet again getting special treatment.

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      4 months ago

      [citation needed]

      List one federal candidate a state successfully removed (that wasn’t convicted in a federal court, or died before the election.)

      Edit: I see the downvotes, but I don’t see a name. I thought this was a place for reasoned debate, but it’s as bad as r/politics where anything regarding the orange man is concerned.

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        https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2020

        Every state has a different number of candidates on their ballot, because every state has different requirements to be on their ballot. Is this ruling going to require every state to accept every candidate? Even those with no chance of winning? Who should decide when someone has no chance of winning? (Silly question, it’s the state, of course.)

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          States are generally free to decide their own candidates for State level elections.

          Federal elections are subject to Federal law and the Federal Constitution. A State just deciding someone is disqualified based on their interpretation is both unconstitutional and incredibly stupid. It was always going to SCOTUS and it was always going to be decided this way.

          Me, I don’t want to live in a country where ANY level of government can just decide you are guilty of something without due process. And that’s what these states tried to do. The mad downvoters lack critical thinking ability and are going off emotion.