re: #210 Backwoods Sleuth

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Jill Wine-Banks’ comment here makes little sense: the Colorado SC ruling keeping Trump off the ballot (and similar motions being argued in other states) are, AFAICT, based on Constitutional issues relating to interpretations of the 14th Amendment. If I am reading the article correctly, Chris Christie’s being barred from the Maine primary is strictly a (state) procedural issue, based on the number of valid signatures collected. Which argument sounds like utter bullshit to me, but never mind.

Like him or not, I just can’t imagine Big Chris not running a campaign organization that wouldn’t (at the very least) check out the ballot qualification rules for the various state primaries, and try to make sure they got the necessary signatures, or whatever in in good time.
He’s no Dean Phillips…