George Conway: SCOTUS Opinion Doesn't Even Make Sense

Jen Psaki welcomed George Conway to give his take on yesterday's convoluted SCOTUS decision.

"You tweeted today, 'it doesn't even profess to be interpreting the text,' " she said.

"It doesn't," Conway said.

"You know, Professor Iffel said that there was a lot of overreach in the majority opinion. I think the problem here is that all nine justices underreached. They simply decided that they were not going to apply the Constitution the way you normally apply it, which is, you read the text and you try to figure out what it means in the context of history and you apply it.

"The plain text of the Constitution provision from here says that Donald Trump is disqualified. So, you know, that was the real problem with today's decision. I don't make much of the concurring opinions' criticism of the majority for having gone too far, because at the end of the day, I don't see, I can't see where in the majority opinion it does say that states can't enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment against federal office holders. The only difference I can see between that holding and what the four concurring justices, the four women, interestingly, said was that they probably would have restricted it to the president, and just the president. Again, there is just no basis, no textural basis, no historical basis."

"For them not to apply it?" Psaki asked.

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