Lauren Boebert Switches Districts

[Ms. Toad]

56. Well that was an interesting read (or at least skim). Thank you.

You are correct that, under Thornton, states cannot impose additional requirements - other than ballot access requirements.

But that 5-4 opinion should make it clear why I was unwilling to rely on a simple textual analysis of a provision of the constitution to settle the matter. The opinion and the dissent both did a deep dive into the history surrounding the drafting of the provisions - and the (theoretically) best legal minds in the country were still nearly evenly split. (And, Thomas, the only member of the current court who participated in the opinion was in the dissent - and he is now in the majority.)

There are lots of bits and pieces of that opinion that may be relevant to current events that I do care about (including an unqualified statement that the president is a federal officer). So I've bookmarked it for a more thorough read later.