SMT-4 | As if the Supreme Court wasn’t already poised in the coming months to render a set of controversial and politically polarizing decisions related to the fate of American democracy, now it will almost certainly be asked to settle – once and for all – whether Donald Trump’s involvement with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol disqualifies him from being president.
To stitch together a new national narrative about a former president who went to great lengths to obstruct the certification of the 2020 presidential election in an attempt to remain in power and whether those efforts bar him from holding office again is a heavy burden for any court – let alone one whose legitimacy already hangs in the balance.