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So how would that work? Clearly, an attempted insurrection happened. Clearly, that invalidates anyone involved from running for office per the Constitution.

It seems the appeals skipped all the federal courts and went straight to the SCOTUS. It never got the chance to go to federal courts.

If you were the prosecutor, how would you have proceeded?

With the benefit of hindsight (ie. knowing the result of today's oral argument), it looks like the best path would have been for the plaintiffs in the case below to sue Trump and the state in federal court from the outset, rather than state court. Ask a federal court to issue an injunction against the State officials including Trump on the ballot, rather than trying to get a state court to do it.

(There's no prosecutor - this was a civil action brought by private plaintiffs seeking to throw Trump off the ballot).

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