As I said months ago, SCOTUS will try to sidestep this issue and let Trump stay on the ballot with a ruling that creates more questions than answers.
What to look for:
If SCOTUS says Colorado can't remove him from the ballot, that DOESN'T mean he is still eligible to be president. In fact, they could easily find that he can be on the ballot, win the election, and still be ineligible. This was actually picked up by Gorsuch.
Another Justice picked up on this. If Trump wins, Congress could decide by 2/3rds majority to let him be President per the 14th Amendment. But what happens if they don't?
The problem for SCOTUS seems to be they agree as a majority that the 14th Amendment is self-executing but can't figure out when or how it comes into play.
The Originalists also have an issue. They have to add words into the 14th Amendment that aren't there if they wish to require an act of Congress to bar Trump.
SCOTUS is going to try to find an off ramp without having to make a real decision here.
At one time I was put in charge of a team that had absent leadership for a while. In police work, it is inevitable that you have to stay late from time to time. . Some employees had gotten into the habit of arriving late, or handling personal businesss on duty to compensate for staying late on other days. Others didn't do this, but they were a resentful for the unpaid overtime. Our union contract allowed for overtime, but it hardly seemed worth it to fill out a form for a few minutes here and there.
I created a form which allowed them to log their extra minutes of time and submit the total monthly for payment, or to trade for additional time off. At the same time, I made it clear that reporting late without good reason was not acceptable. The result was tremendous improvement in morale. The ones that were already exploitive were pissed, but the ones who had been more concientious saw their efforts rewarded. One guy accumulated an entire week of additional vacation.
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In the real world where you don't have near invincible police union protection, we also have a way of increasing morale:
You fire the burned out or unhappy employees and replace them with new suckers...I mean employees... They are happy to work late to prove themselves. And if not, we just replace them too.