A frustrated Arizona Democrat Secretary of State, Adrian Fontes, announced he does not have legal authority to block President Trump from the ballot.
Mr. Fontes says he would do it if he could and calls the laws governing his inability “stupid.” SoS Fontes is big mad.
(Via The Hill) – Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) said he does not have the ability to bar former President Donald Trump from running for president in his state Wednesday.
There have been calls to bar the former president from being able to run in 2024 related to language in the 14th amendment where it states those who “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the government cannot hold office. Fontes said despite those claims, he cannot do so by way of a previous Arizona Supreme Court case.
“Now, the Arizona Supreme Court said that because there’s no statutory process in federal law to enforce Section 3 of the 14th amendment, you can’t enforce it,” Fontes said on “The Gaggle” podcast by The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com.
“That’s what the Arizona Supreme Court said, so that’s the state of the law in Arizona. Now, do I agree with that? No, that’s stupid,” Fontes continued.
Fontes said despite his dislike of what the Arizona Supreme Court has decided, he will still follow it because it is Arizona law.
“What I’m saying is I’m going to follow the law,” Fontes said. “And the law in Arizona is what the law in Arizona is. Whether I like it or not, is irrelevant.” (link)
Don’t be fooled. They will not challenge Trump being on the ballot until the last minute. It would leave no time to fight in court. Scotus will punt when necessary
The children on Yapoo are having a fit about this. we better get our message out better or they may be able to pull another cheat!
Doesn’t matter one whit who’s in the WH, if a republican….no matter the one…
CONGRESS won’t do one thing to help, no action, no fight….period.
I’m seeing and reading more and more people finalizing realizing after 30Y….republicans DO NOTHING but whine, fundraise, talk tough, send strongly worded letters……
We’ve had misery for 2+Y….WHAT has ANY republican done?
McCarthy PLEDGED at least 10 diff areas he would ACT????!!!!!!!!!!
Any J6 tapes..?? MGT…where are the tapes?
Impeach….ain’t NEVER gonna happen and Biden as corrupt as any 3rd world leader
IMMIGRATION…………………
CRIME
INFLATION: r’s SUPPORTED the bill just like dems and spent $gazillions of $$
Ukraine
87000 IRS agents….ON THE JOB now….WE WILL REPEAL and send them home??? BIG TALk…..
republicans DO NOTHING…..
Vote for any candidate and it won’t chg.
McConnell who is almost comatose IS THE LEADER>>>>>THE LEADER.
He’s going to FIGHT..
McCarthy is younger than McConnell, but an absolute LOSER….ALL BY DESIGN.
the republicans NEVER meant to do anything diff than now.
GAETZ, MGT…et als…ya’ll look like fools….
We don’t want the House to impeach Biden yet, gotta be strategic on this. Everybody on the conservative side need to encourage Cornell West to run for President to the left of Biden. Then once the primaries are underway, then impeach him. Have a month-long, televised presentation of evidence and witnesses. Make it so late than the DNC cannot substitute Gruesome Newsom or anyone else.
That ‘s actually the Left’s grand plan. Someone just laid all of that out on Newsmax the other night. The Dems plan to jettison Biden after there are no primary challengers and it’s too late to go back and find one or mount a campaign. Then the princes and princesses of the DNC will come together at the National Democrat Party Convention and chose one amongst themselves to carry the torch and be their anointed candidate.
So no need for a primary, no need to allow the hoi poi rank and file democrats to have any say, no need to allow them the privilege of having a vote in the process. No more feigned democracy, they are going to go full bore Party Socialism next year.
This could be the fact, but they run the risk of the people not wanting to vote for a candidate they had no say in putting on the ballot. At least there is that slight hope for us. Unless a very large percentage of the voters align with Donald Trump and say so, we are all just speculating. We have to sell our candidate to our families and neighbors so that they know everyone is voting for him. We will not even be able to discuss strategy with each other in the very near future. I don’t think allegorically very well, so I have a big problem with the current plans to censor everyone with AI type algorithms. My sources of information will be back to paper products, which I think may may a big comeback if AI chicanery destroys the internet as a source of information. We are “Slouching Towards Gomorrah” on the social media side of the internet already.
Sad thing, the stupid Democrats will turn out in the millions to support their “Party”. 25million will be fictisous persons registered to vote based on what me know from Michigan.
Chairman Clinton again?
We will not be in control of enough levers to make it so the DNC can get boxed into a corner. If it looks like the Repugs will try to impeach old Joe, the Demcommies may wish for the same outcome they got when the Repugs decided to impeach Bill Clinton. The people don’t like impeachment of the President, and since most of the Demcommies are feeding from the same buckets, they will oppose impeachment for no other reason other than the rich treasures that only they can find in his bucket.
If Obama could not be impeached for his corruption, his primary sock puppet will not be impeached either. The Repugs need to start supporting Trump right now, but their buckets just got filled by their big moneyed benefactors. They would rather go home with the leftovers than see Trump get elected in spite of them, so nothing will be done by the House when they know the Senate will rebuke them. Everything depends on us, and our rugs are being removed right now.
thats what we thought about Durham. He went out with a whimper.
the country is lost. The gop got their cut and is dropping all of it.
No impeachment, no nothing. The last 5 years have been a total capitulation.
I am old, and my kids don’t care. They will never know the country we did. They will settle for their allotment.
Impeach Biden at the same time as Trump’s Georgia trial.
McCarthy does what Frank whispers in his ear across the pillow.
He is subject to opinion polls because he is a politician.
Great description of the UNIPARTY! There are 2 “politics” and it’s NOT the parties! One politics is to satisfy the needs and demands of the billionaire DONORS who pay them obscene amounts for legislation. The other politics is to generate all manner of imagery and talk to give the VOTERS the illusion they have some sense of “control” and plenty of talk content for the MSM to stage their phony debates and “news”. Once you can view both sides; as a puppet show on one side and a billionaire back-alley crime fest on the other, it’s much easier to understand. Like; NO, but perhaps be able to predict and judge for yourself.
100% accurate….^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is capitol hill.
“There are 2 “politics” and it’s NOT the parties! “
Hmm..
Arkansas will use hand-marked paper ballots in all future elections.
What part of the Democrat Party supports paper ballots ?.
.. NONE!
Republicans and democrats are different sides of the same coin.
Especially given that the Democrat party is controlled by Marxist-Leninist / Maoists and National Socialists and the GOP is controlled by Marxist-Trotskyite (Neocon) Globalists.
Democrat party is controlled by RACIST !!
If there’s no difference between the party’s then the Department of Justice would have arrested Joe Biden.
And
When you flip a coin it wouldn’t always land to make the Democrats winners.
You must try harder to understand – – – – – IT’S THE UNIPARTY.
On Mike Lindell’s site, go to bottom od page, there is an article on Mike Gaetz br
Bringing forth the Motion to Vacate against Speaker
McCarthy…I don’t
Know how to validate.
Anyone???
“Vote for any candidate and it won’t change.”
B.S. ,,,,,
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says no to Covid hysteria:
“As long as I’m Governor, Arkansas will not lock down.
We will not close schools, churches, or businesses.
And we will not have masks or COVID vaccine mandates.”
Tucker Carlson had access to the tapes and yet he has developed Biden memory loss.
Comatose McCarthy. Exactly. And we knew he would be.
Curious though, is it not? They’ve never allowed the law to stop them before.
The SCOTUS has already ruled on this. When Communist Eugene V Debbs was in prison but was still the Communist Party’s nominee for President, the SCOTUS ruled he met all the qualifications outlined in the Constitution and must be included if his party met the threshold.
OK, except Debs ran as the Socialist Party of America candidate, and the SCOTUS never made such a ruling. Or if they did please provide a cite for it.
Give it time. one of these state AG’s will not be all that bright and will try
Don’t celebrate yet. This is a wake up call for RINO/democrat state legislatures to quickly pass statutory laws that allow them enforce the 14th.
Respectfully, it would be the Federal Congress-House and Senate ,per section 5.
(He’s) ” going to follow the law”….how novel!
Even though he doesn’t like it and thinks it’s stupid. Or maybe he just thinks the AZ Supreme Court is stupid?
The shocking part of this story is the socialist declaring that he will follow a law he doesn’t like. A rare bird, indeed.
Giving a speech one 1-2 miles from the Capitol and exhorting his followers to protest at the Capitol “peacefully and patriotically” is not engaging in rebellion or insurrection unless exercising ones 1A rights to challenge the election results is now deemed insurrectionary which it apparently is.
Why do you think the news outlets went all in on calling it an insurrection?
If they say it is, it might just stick. It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, the label sticks and therefore Tump can be removed from the ballot without ever a trial or being found guilty of an actual crime.
Just like the left calling everyone they disagree with a racist or homophobe.
Indeed. Laws attempting to block him on that ground would very likely get overturned as unconstitutional, but the question remains of whether it would be successful in interfering with the election by the time the court process was completed.
He’s a liar and knows he was installed as SoS.
“What I’m saying is I’m going to follow the law,” Fontes said. “And the law in Arizona is what the law in Arizona is. Whether I like it or not, is irrelevant.” (link)
Fontes is a liar and a cheat – he only follows the law if it’s unavoidable. He aided and abetted cheating in the 2020 election, but now that everything in AZ is so public, he can’t hide. He’s a coward, a criminal and should be tarred, feathered and run out of AZ on a rail!
Notice that Adrian Fontes did not say ‘in all good conscience I cannot do it’; he essentially said ‘I cannot do it legally da*n it all’
“If there’s not a law against it, it must be OK”. Jesse Jackson, 1984 POTUS campaign.
It’s quite unusual to have a Democrat say he will actually follow a law. Are we sure that wasn’t a misquote?
Next move, blatantly ignore the law…
“He would if he could” says it all.
The motive to stop Trump has nothing to do with the facts of J6.
So if they can’t remove him from the ballot they’ll resort to their bag of scams to steal the election.
Nothing new in AZ to see here
“Fontes said despite his dislike of what the Arizona Supreme Court has decided, he will still follow it because it is Arizona law…”
Interesting statement, seeing that the law has never stopped these people from doing what they want before – I smell a (democ)rat.
I wouldn’t trust that Mfer for a second. He represents Cartels. Arizona is rapidly deteriorating into a criminal enterprise ruled by the McCain-Mormon-Mexican mafias.
Awwwww…poor baby!
Chrystal Clear. The Indictments were/are to keep Trump off the Ballets.
The Dirt Bag party is dirt bagging. What’s new?
If Deep State convicted and confined Trump, voters would give the Deep State one gigantic middle finger and install him as President in a landslide.
Sure, I’d like to see Trump lay off 30,000+ DC Government Workers.
(I don’t think it will happen because everything is orchestrated to keep Trump out of DC).
Fontes is a lawyer for the Cartel and is as corrupt as they come. He is the cause of the Maricopa stolen election in 2020 and there’s NO WAY he’s going to follow the law. Somethings up, wait and see.
He’ll find a way, or just do it, betting he’ll get no push back; we’re talking corrupt democrats here; in ’24 they will be even more brazen than in the ’20 General.
“What I’m saying is I’m going to follow the law,” Fontes said. “And the law in Arizona is what the law in Arizona is. Whether I like it or not, is irrelevant.”
A true statement that is already being jettisoned by lawless progressive/ Marxists who would rather follow the credo, “I am in power, therefore I AM the law, regardless of what is written.”
Awww….too bad the guy can’t figure out how to break the law…someone will probably help him figure it out as we deal with these lawless demons.
This is a mis-direction play. He says that now, so you go away. Even if the law doesn’t permit him to prevent PDJT from being on the ballot, how much do you want to bet he later tries it anyway? Make the courts catch up with him?
This is the typical leftist play: In the first instance, you proclaim the law prohibits you from doing X. In the second instance, you go ahead and do it anyway.
Student loans.
Bump stocks.
Pistol braces.
Gas stoves.
This is just a tiny sample. The list is legion.
If they say the law doesn’t permit them to do it, get ready for them to do it anyway.
This is rich, considering that “SoS” Fontes, like “Gov” Squeaky Hobbs, wasn’t actually elected to the office and is illegitimate.
MCCarthy does not understand that if him and the lazy Republicans did more they would get the kind of donations they need to keep their seats but now that they are just flat out refusing to do anything, they have found their donations down to a drip.
There is nothing that comer will do with all the information he has either, It will get put away and joe and crooked son Hunter will move on to the next phase of their lives and President Trump and his family will still be going through hell because of this dirty rat..
Everytime a Republican decides to step up and do something the Dems and RINOs run out to the nearest lap dog media and tell them how unfair they are being and how this is just not us and we just need to work across the Isle and get things done, but when the Dems and RINOs are after another Republican they go to great lengths to bring that person to the floor and before they are done the man or women has no standing any where.
Its time for McCarthy to tell Romney and the rest of his stupid gang that they need to choose where they stand either with us or with them and then
take down the most corrupt and crooked President (Biden and his son) that has ever been in the White House.
Time for the Dems to step out of the way and allow this to come about, before they are also kicked out of office by US
Its also time for the Congress and the Senate Republicans to step up and back President Trump and stop with the Silent treatment because they think
that its for the best if they stay out of it.. Keep that up and YOU will find your selves with out a seat ever again.
“What I’m saying is I’m going to follow the law,” Fontes said. “And the law in Arizona is what the law in Arizona is. Whether I like it or not, is irrelevant” .
What AZ law is he referencing? The AZ SC issued an opinion, I assume, based upon their reading and understanding of Section 5 of the 14th amendment. Any person who has the ability to read that and “understand” the text, would not have had to have the AZSC issue an opinion; unless they truly can’t. This is nothing but cover for him so he can beat his chest to his fellow travelers (idiots) and say, ” See, I’m all down with getting rid of Trump on the ballot but, but….. JATF-Just Another Total Fraud.
Translation: “We’ll just do it with Maricopa instead.”
Isaiah 41
11 Behold, all those who are angered at you will be shamed and dishonored;
Those who contend with you will be as nothing and will perish.
12 You will seek those who quarrel with you, but will not find them,
Those who war with you will be as nothing and non-existent.
13 For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand,
Who says to you, ‘Do not fear, I will help you.’
So–following the Biden and Obama precedents, now that Fontes has admitted he legally can’t block Trump from the ballot…we should expect him to go ahead and do so anyway in about three months.
Do not pop the corks yet on the victory drinks.
Since the AZ Court found “there’s no statutory process in federal law to enforce Section 3 of the 14th amendment” does not necessarily mean this is over.
All the AZ Judge did was point out the problem of NO LEGISLATION EXISTING to enforce the 14th Amendment. The Judge did not say the 14th Amendment could not be used if the criteria and enforcement mechanism are established.
This was FREE LEGAL JUDICIAL ADVICE to the lawfare effort, without a formal hearing being conducted.
The potential options are:
US Congress Legislates … or … the States (especially democrat and possibly neverTrump RINO States) try the 10th Amendment Route to Legislate.
Amendment Ten to the Constitution was ratified on December 15, 1791. It makes clear that any powers that are not specifically given to the federal government, nor withheld from the states, are reserved to those respective states, or to the people at large.
The current Trials have to go on to at least try to establish a reason to pursue removing President Trump as well as create the “burning platform” to create legislation to enforce the 14th Amendment.
Fontes is a scary guy who has tons to do with the mess in Maricopa… And he was hired and paid by Soros to do just that… And he’s right, he doesn’t like the current laws and with a little more power he’d change the laws for good and we won’t see another Republican winning anything in Arizona ever again. So, going into 2024, Arizona Republicans need to get their act together, ballot harvest or whatever it takes and put guys like Fontes on the run, because with a little more power, he will finish the job he was hired to do…
Ffontes
Fhobbs
FJB
Not to worry Adrian, Dewit to the rescue. AZGOP Chair Jeff Dewit has run out the clock on a vote that would have allowed Arizona to run a handcount no machines Presidential Preference Election away from the control of the state government and Adrian Fontes and Stephen Richer.
https://www.brianference.com/news/dewit-betrays-arizona-trump-blocks-vote-on-handcount-election-not-run-by-adrian-fontes/
Well, it looks like one foolish program got shot down by the court and thats great to hear, NOW these idiots will have to find another way to cheat him out of his place at the White House,
The few good REpublicans in the house said, they were going to release more of the Jan 6th tapes but I promise not to hold my breath until that happens These people are not great at following threw on what they say they will do..
Both of those Pictures are really wonderful to look at, just never could understand why people think they dont like this man, most of it comes from the lap dog media talking points 24 hours a day, but when someone meets him some times they change their minds
he is bringing more people to his side this time,
It’s Arizona, he doesn’t need to ban Trump from the ballot. Elections are already safely “fortified” there, the regime no longer has to worry about who will “win.”
Uh huh. Remembering when 0dumbo said the same thing right before he did it anyway.