“In public, in media, and now in briefs, those who wish to show that Colorado did err make three bad arguments. They amount to excuses for the Supreme Court not to apply the plain wording of the Constitution. Here they are:

1. The president of the United States is not "an officer of the United States."

2. Trump is disqualified only if convicted of a crime or when Congress passes a law.

3. Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment applies only to the 1860s.

A majority of the members of the Supreme Court advertise themselves as people who attend to the plain wording of the Constitution, or to its meaning as understood by framers, legislators, or people at the time.”