Will SCOTUS Enable Democracy's End?

The orange menace knew that he'd lost the presidential election in November of 2020, and knew that leaving the office of the President would create an opportunity for civil and, potentially, criminal allegations against him to proceed. A life long ability to avoid being held to account could end.

So, the last few months of the 45th administration was spent attempting to find any means to avoid the inevitable exit of the orange menace from the White House.

“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” 45 tweeted on Dec. 19, 2020. Just one of several of his tweets promoting the day. “Be there, will be wild!” An open invitation to insurrection for 45's loyal MAGAt supporters on the day that a joint session of congress would certify the results of the recent presidential election.

On January 6^th, 2021 the exiting president spoke to the crowd gathered near the capital and invited the crowd to walk to the Capital while insisting that law enforcement and Secret Service agents remove the magnetometers that detect and stop those carrying guns from approaching the Capital.

These, and quite a few other means, were attempted to overturn the election, upheld against every challenge in the courts and certified in the US Congress, of a new president.

It has been proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the activities before, during and after the elections of November 2020 were an attempted insurrection. That the 45^th president encouraged and participated in said insurrection is clear. Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment to the Constitution is also absolutely clear in it's intent that such activity shall prohibit any who have taken, and broken, an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution from any office where said sworn oath will be required again.

It is not clear that the current SCOTUS justices understand this rather straight forward concept that would allow states to ban insurrectionists from the ballot for elected office in their state's elections.

If SCOTUS does not allow states the ability to control access to the ballots, in their states, they will forever be known as the enablers of the next insurrection.