This whole '14th Amendment, Section 3' thing started with 2 deeply conservative Federalist Society Constitutional Law scholars arguing in FAVOR of it...then, Republicans, no less, filed suit in Colorado...using that argument...to keep DJT off their ballot...no Dems involved with that effort. Why did this happen?
The author of the Atlantic article sees the potential benefit to the GOP of a SCOTUS decision upholding the Colorado Supreme Court decision...perhaps the GOP does as well, especially given that all of the conservative majority Justices are card-carrying members of the Federalist Society.