Does kicking a popular candidate off the electoral ballot protect democracy? Or is that in fact deeply anti-democratic?
These are the questions that many Americans are pondering today after Colorado’s Supreme Court voted four to three to block Donald Trump from running in its state in the election next year, citing the insurrection clause in the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.
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