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There was a tension between federalism and national power in the oral argument in Trump v. Anderson .
Justices Sotomayor and Kagan , in particular, recognized this line.
Jonathan Mitchell resisted any effort to reconcile these doctrines, says John Tillman .
Tillman: States always have the power to impose additional qualifications on state officials.
David Gergen : The states need federal enforcement legislation to enforce disabilities against federal officials, including the President.
He says Chase read Section 5 as giving Congress a monopoly over enforcement of Section 3 .
Gergen says states have the reserved power to impose qualifications on their own state officials under the Tenth Amendment .
There is no history of states enforcing Section 3 against federal officials, Tillman and Tillman say.
The states always have the reserved power over their own officials, they say.
There are no examples of states using Section 3 as a way to bar federal officeholders.
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