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Colorado Reconsiders Letting Trump on the Ballot
12Dec By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Colorado Reconsiders Letting Trump on the Ballot

There is only one real conclusion to draw from the oral arguments before the Colorado Supreme Court last Wednesday, about whether Donald Trump is constitutionally disqualified from running for President again because of his role in the events of January 6th, and it’s that the U.S. Supreme Court needs to rule on that question as soon as possible. Otherwise, the country will be headed for even more electoral upheaval than it already faces. The Colorado litigation is one of several similar cases on the disqualification question, but it has proceeded the furthest. It won’t be the last.Trump, after all, is poised to be the Republican nominee. What if, on Super Tuesday, or at the G.O.P.’s Convention, or even on Election Day, there is still an unresolved legal controversy about his eligibility? ...
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A Two-Faced Tax at the Supreme Court
20Oct By adminNo Comments
Business

A Two-Faced Tax at the Supreme Court

When is an income tax not an income tax? In Washington state, the answer is whenever Democrats pretend it’s something else. To get around restrictions in the state constitution, they passed a 7% levy on capital gains, while calling it an excise tax. Remarkably, the state Supreme Court went along. Now it’s up to the U.S. Supreme Court to step in under federal law.The Justices will soon decide whether to hear Quinn v. Washington, a taxpayer challenge to the state’s excise shenanigan. Washington doesn’t have a progressive income tax, because the state constitution forbids it. As the petitioners explain in their brief, any such tax must be “uniform and capped at 1%,” meaning higher earners “cannot be made to pay more as a percentage of their income.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, In...
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