The Roberts court prefers to stay out of legislation issues, as the challenge to the “Obamacare” ruling proved.

If Donald Trump is taken off enough primary ballots to prevent him from getting the nomination, the Supreme Court doesn’t have to step in.

All Mr. Trump has to do is campaign for voting for Vivek Ramaswamy in the states where he’s been tossed from the ballot. This will cause a first ballot loss for every candidate. Then the Trump and Ramaswamy delegations can coalesce to give Mr. Trump the nomination.

After that, Mr. Trump can campaign for any independent or third-party candidate in the battleground states. The most likely result is that no candidate will get 270 electoral votes.  

Then the contest will go to the House, where at least 26 of the delegations will vote for Mr. Trump.

STEPHEN YOUHANAIE

Oswego, Illinois 

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