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Faculty at New York University

I won't pretend to be a legal expert or to know all of the factors involved in the "arguments" in the legal discussions before the Supreme court but, IMHO, I viewed the range of questions asked by the Supremes to be very limited and that possible exceptions were ignored. There appears to be a question that seems to be driving the Supremes, namely, "why a single state should be able to decide who should be on the ballot in a national election". I have to asked, don't we already have this happening in every election? Not all people running for president appear on all state ballots, for a variety of reasons, some of which are purely political (i.e., keeping certain people off the ballot because they would draw votes from another candidate). In any event, the Supremes will probably be very narrow in their decision if they don't punt this year.

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