...Murray argument is turning in a running of the gauntlet with justices lined up to develop serious blows to the disqualification arguments and their implications...
...Justice Alito just asked Murray if military officers could have refused to take orders from a president who engaged in insurrection. Murray suggested no. But Gorsuch jumped in to say you said he was disqualified "from the moment it happens." This is a hit below the waterline for Murray and he is struggling.
...Gorsuch is delivering the coup de grace to ask why he was not immediately disqualified without any due process. "On your theory, would anything compel a lower official to object a former president.?" He then hit Murray for "trying to change the hypothetical."
...Murray stabilized the ship a little but saying that, while they are in office, impeachment is the only remedy for removal in such a circumstance.
...Alito just hit Murray again, saying "you are really not answering my question and it is really not helpful if you are going to do that."
...Alito is raising the anti-democratic aspects of the effort and "the effect of disenfranchising voters to a significant degree."
...Jackson is again raising the lack of uniformity in states using this power. She is again asking whether presidential elections should be excluded and indicated that she is still not satisfied on that point.
..."Why didn't they put president . .. on the list." This is a significant problem for disqualification advocates. The questions suggest that Jackson does see a real problem on the first question.
...Jackson was viewed by many of us as the toughest sale for those seeking to overturn Colorado. She is clearly still in play for those seeking to set aside this judgment.
...Murray is finally done. That was rough. He took more arrows than Saint Sebastian and they were coming from both the left and the right of the court. Shannon Stevenson is now up.
...Roberts and Alito have noted that some states have no provision for judicial review of these decisions by secretaries of state.
@JonathanTurley so is this going to be 9-0 or more like 8-1? What is your call? Lets place some bets here!
@JonathanTurley Finally judge said dont you have to be convicted of being an insurrectionist before you get taken off the ballot??? Period done!!!!!!
@JonathanTurley It was bad but Murray really hurt himself with the other Judges when he attempted to overtalk Kavanaugh at one point and it sent Gorsuch off.
@JonathanTurley The Murray questioning was painful. Gorsuch was awesome!!!
@JonathanTurley Taken to the legal woodshed..loved it.
@JonathanTurley The remedy would be for the Feds to convict under Insurrection criminal statutes and he has not even been charged.
@JonathanTurley I don't think it's going much better for Shannon either.