During his presidency, the high court’s conservatives proved to be resistant to the idea that Donald Trump was their legal client. This year, that all changed.

Conservatives got their way when the Supreme Court ruled against Trump’s disqualification, but two red-state secretaries of state seem to be bent on retaliation anyway.

The justices spent Thursday’s oral arguments looking for an off-ramp from kicking the former president out of the presidential race.

A group of North Carolina voters have employed a Reconstruction-era law to try to boot the controversial lawmaker from office.