The biggest threat to the Constitution in 2024 is the “lawfare” being waged against Donald Trump — and the Supreme Court is as much its target as Trump is.
Consider attempts in Colorado, Maine and elsewhere to ban Trump from the ballot.
The architects of these efforts are counting on most Americans not knowing how presidential primaries and general elections actually work.
What happens if a blue-state Supreme Court or Democratic secretary of state rules that Trump isn’t eligible to be president?
If the question stayed at the state level, very little would change.
This is because voters don’t directly pick either a party’s nominee or a president.
Primaries and caucuses are only first steps in a process — which differs from state to state — that ultimately selects delegates to the party’s national convention.
Those delegates, in turn, pick the…
