Supreme Court 'wary of giving Mr. Trump the electoral boost' of a win: analyst
Law scholars are torn about what the Supreme Court might do once they are tasked with ruling on defendant Donald Trump.
There's thinking that the nine justices might seek some off-ramps and put Congress on the hot seat or they might let Trump stay on the 2024 ballot so that the voters ultimately decide if he's fit to run the country.
But all of them who spoke to The New York Times seem to agree that the Supreme Court must act.
“I expect the court to take advantage of one of the many available routes to avoid holding that Trump is an insurrectionist who therefore can’t be president again,” said Harvard law professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos.
Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller acknowledged the issue was politically "fraught" and because of this the court will ultimately not banish Trump from the White House contest.
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“I think there will be an effort for the court to coalesce around a consensus position for a narrow, unanimous opinion," he told the Times. "That probably means coalescing around a position where Trump stays on the ballot.”
One thing the Supreme Court is worried about is giving Donald Trump an "electoral boost" by ruling for him in various states' ballot removal efforts, according to an analysis that reviews the various options the Supreme Court could ultimately take.
No matter which way the highest court in the land decides — most every legal scholar believes they need to get in the game.
“For the sake of the country, we need resolution of this issue as soon as possible,” said Richard L. Hasen, a University of California, Los Angeles law professor. “Republican primary voters deserve to know if the candidate they are considering supporting is eligible to run."
"Otherwise they waste their votes on an ineligible candidate and raise the risk of the party nominating an ineligible candidate in the general election.”