Colorado Supreme Court Disqualifies Trump From 2024 Ballot, Setting Up Supreme Court Challenge
December 19th, 2023As Biden collapses in the polls, and Trump rises, Democrats are going to resort to increasingly desperate — and anti-democratic — means to ensure Trump can't run, all while they insist that only they are the Guardians of Democracy.
This is playing with real fire: https://t.co/UFdoju77UW
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 20, 2023
Via: ZeroHedge:
The Colorado Supreme Court has disqualified Donald Trump from Colorado’s 2024 presidential election ballot, and in a 4-3 ruling has effectively blocked Trump from seeking the presidency because of his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, citing the post-Civil War-era 14th Amendment to the US Constitution that bans insurrectionists from holding public office. The Colorado case was the first constitutional challenge to Trump’s 2024 run to go through a full trial.
Voters, represented by the advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, had argued he should be barred from the ballot for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
Colorado’s highest court – whose seven-member bench was entirely appointed by Democratic governors – overturned a ruling from a district court judge who found that Trump incited an insurrection for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but said he could not be barred from the ballot because it was unclear that the provision was intended to cover the presidency.
In its ruling, the Democrat-controlled court found that Trump engaged in insurrection by inflaming his supporters with false claims of election fraud and directing them to the Capitol. The state justices determined that the office of the president is covered under the insurrection clause, which specifically lists those who previously took oaths to support the Constitution as “a member of Congress,” “officer of the United States,” “member of any State legislature” or an “executive or judicial officer of any State.” The district court had previously ruled that the office of the president was not covered under the clause.
Can’t make this up.
“The Colorado case against Trump was brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), headed by President and CEO Noah Bookbinder…who sits on the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Advisory Council (HSAC)…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/course-biden-admin-linked-trump-ballot-ban-colorado
Now that a very blustery winter’s here, it’ll be hard for protesters to march, if anybody still has the courage after seeing some J6ers shot, gassed and locked up for 3 years so far with no trial yet. It seems like major protests are long overdue. But, remember what happened to the Bonus Marchers at the end of WWI? And there were 43,000 of them. Maybe a big protest would be used as an excuse to delay the election. The bad guys probably have lots of excuses lined up, ready to use according to which situation develops. We’ll see.
I have absolutely no idea what is going to happen, but we’re well into unprecedented territory already.