That’s not me speaking, or Democratic politicians, or progressive activists. It’s two influential conservative legal scholars, Professors William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, in a University of Pennsylvania Law Review article. Other leading conservative lawyers have backed their view, making Trump’s disqualification more than a hypothetical possibility.
This sounds incredible. Since when can scholars control the course of our democracy? But the authors’ argument could get serious attention from our conservative-dominated Supreme Court, which could well make the final call on the matter.