The US supreme court may turn this election into a constitutional crisis | Sidney Blumenthal

By dodging the question of Trump's eligibility for re-election, the court could force a dangerous situation on to Congress

Imagine it is 6 January 2025. The bell tolls for the day of electoral college certification again. All the events of 2024 converge:

The US supreme court's likely ruling in Trump v Anderson denying Colorado's disqualification of Trump under the constitution's 14th amendment, section 3; the exoneration of Joe Biden by special counsel Robert Hur for handling documents while sideswiping him as near senile; the ruling on Trump's immunity; the trial for his coup attempt; and Texas Governor Greg Abbott's defiance of federal court rulings in deploying his national guard to the border, supported by other Republican governors who have mobilized their guard units in similar acts of nullification - all these happenings could hurtle to a convulsive confrontation.

Sidney Blumenthal is a Guardian US columnist. He is a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln: A Self-Made Man, Wrestling With His Angel and All the Powers of Earth