At Election Law Blog, Derek Muller: Fourteenth Amendment federalism over Electoral College federalism in Trump v. Anderson. From the introduction:
This sentence, perhaps more than any other, in my judgment, drives the decision in Trump v. Anderson (and the unanimous consensus of the Supreme Court):
Because federal officers “‘owe their existence and functions to the united voice of the whole, not of a portion, of the people,’” powers over their election and qualifications must be specifically “delegated to, rather than reserved by, the States.” U. S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U. S. 779, 803–804 (1995) (quoting 1 J. Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States §627, p. 435 (3d ed. 1858)).
(This is not without some irony, as Justice Thomas, who joined the majority here, dissented in Term Limits and was critical of Story’s framing.)
From there, the rest of Part II-B opinion flows almost inevitably from this point …
(Thanks to Andrew Hyman for the pointer.)
RELATED: At Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin has two posts on the decision, one strongly endorsing Mike Rappaport's post here:
Michael Rappaport on "the Originalist Disaster" of the Supreme Court's Ruling in Trump v. Colorado
Why a "Patchwork" is Better than Being Uniformly Wrong: A Qualified Defense of Section 3 Federalism
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