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Question for: Oct 23, 2024

On Thursday, February 8, 2024, Jonathan F. Mitchell, the lawyer for Donald Trump, began his argument in the case that barred Trump from the ballot in Colorado. Mitchell almost immediately began discussing the Griffin case with the Supreme Court. In 1869, what Chief Justice wrote the decision in the Griffin case, ruling that the insurrectionist ban could not be enforced without some ruling by Congress?

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