Every justice, including Kagan and Brown Jackson, who asked lawyers questions, clearly were unpersuaded.
Chief Justice John Roberts said that the "whole point" of the 14th Amendment was to restrict state power after the Civil War and questioned why it would give states the ability to kick a presidential candidate off the ballot.
Taking a similar approach, conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh said it was clear from the entirety of the 14th Amendment that "Congress has the primary role here."
Justice Elena Kagan, one of the three liberal justices, asked why "a single state can determine who is president of the United States. It seems quite extraordinary, doesn't it?"
Conservative Justice Samuel Alito called states reaching differing conclusions on the issue an "unmanageable situation."
Justice Kentaji Brown Jackson, one of the liberals, appeared to agree, asking why the authors of the 14th Amendment "would have designed a system that would could result in interim dis-uniformity in this way, where we have elections pending and different states suddenly saying, ‘You are eligible, you’re not.’”
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