Three main points before getting to the substance. [213 page opinion HERE]
#1) It was a 4-3 decision. Meaning it was the politics of the court, literally the political makeup and perspective therein, that determined the outcome of the decision. This is showcased in point #3, which is the funniest part.
#2) The entire framework of the case against Trump in the Colorado decision is predicated on this: “[the complainants] asserted that he was ineligible under Section Three because he engaged in insurrection on January 6, 2021, after swearing an oath as President to support the U.S. Constitution.” [pdf, page 6] REMINDER – President Donald Trump was not charged with “insurrection,” is not accused of “insurrection,” does not fit the complaint under the definitions of “insurrection,” and has never been found guilty of insurrection. The complaint is moot before the court. But hey, it’s Lawfare… and we all know Lawfare is created for public media consumption, so that takes us directly to the biggest point.
#3) Instead of me writing it, let me screengrab it so we can all laugh together [pdf page 9].
Wait, what?
Yes, that’s correct. As long as President Trump appeals the decision to the Supreme Court, the appeals court stays their own ruling – essentially indefinitely. The Colorado primary ballots printed, and the primary election will be over, before the Supreme Court puts this on their docket.
In addition to the virtual guarantee the high court will overrule this political nonsense, SCOTUS can make the entire issue moot before them by following their own normal schedule for submissions, arguments, deliberation and opinions delivered by the court.
The Colorado appellate court knows this, that’s why they put this self-stay into their 4-3 ruling. It’s a politically correct way of giving the optics of telling their tribe, ‘hey we’re with you,’ without the ramifications of the political backlash. In other words, psychological lawfare stuff – intended for media consumption.
Making the issue that much better for Donald Trump, the efforts of the Prescott-Bush clan (look it up – they live in CO) will backfire bigly. The public backlash against a judicial ruling that interferes with the right of the citizens to determine their own election candidates plays perfectly into the sunlight operation against the Lawfare left.
This backlash will be epic, albeit hidden by MSNBC and the rest of the insufferable media. Why? Because it doesn’t fit the Lawfare narrative.
I’m not even going to highlight the nonsense from the leftists who are in a frenzy over this one. Just smile, pretend it’s the end of the world, eat your favorite foods and live your best life while trying not to laugh. Seriously, this is just that level of goofy.
Remember what I said about Ron DeSantis in 2022, and everyone looked at me funny. Well, this is way more predictable than me saying DeSantis will collapse in sunlight.
That said, Vivek Ramaswamy is not silly, and he sees a great opportunity.
VIA TWITTER – This is what an *actual* attack on democracy looks like: in an un-American, unconstitutional, and *unprecedented* decision, a cabal of Democrat judges are barring Trump from the ballot in Colorado. Having tried every trick in the book to eliminate President Trump from running in this election, the bipartisan Establishment is now deploying a new tactic to bar him from ever holding office again: the 14th Amendment.
I pledge to *withdraw* from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the state’s ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley to do the same immediately – or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country.
Today’s decision is the latest election interference tactic to silence political opponents and swing the election for whatever puppet the Democrats put up this time by depriving Americans of the right to vote for their candidate of choice.
The 14th Amendment was part of the “Reconstruction Amendments” that were ratified following the Civil War. It was passed to prohibit former Confederate military and political leaders from holding high federal or state office. These men had clearly taken part in a rebellion against the United States: the Civil War. That makes it all the more absurd that a left-wing group in Colorado is asking a federal court to disqualify the 45th President on the same grounds, equating his speech to rebellion against the United States.
And there’s another legal problem: Trump is not a former “officer of the United States,” as that term is used in the Constitution, meaning Section 3 does not apply. As the Supreme Court explained in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (2010), an “officer of the United States” is someone appointed by the President to aid him in his duties under Article II, Section 2. The term does not apply to elected officials, and certainly not to the President himself.
The Framers of the 14th Amendment would be appalled to see this narrow provision—intended to bar former U.S. officials who switched to the Confederacy from seeking public office—being weaponized by a sitting President and his political allies to prevent a former President from seeking reelection. Our country is becoming unrecognizable to our Founding Fathers. (read more)
I mean, c’mon man. Have we forgotten when Trump won the Colorado primary in 2016, and the delegates all promised to vote for Ted Cruz at the convention anyway.
The Colorado GOP is Prescott-Bush. Nuf said!
This is all silly Lawfare.
Continue to mock them and they will keep beclowning themselves.
Even Frank Luntz admits it…
The free publicity is priceless. Will these imbeciles ever learn?
I hope not.
They don’t have a choice.
They have to feed the monster (aka their base).
I doubt it. They’re that stupid—and arrogant!
FFL
Poor, poor Lumpy. He has a sad because he knows Mitt in a Skirt will NEVER EVER be able to compete with VSGG President Trump. She’s not even on the same planet.
He doesn’t need CO on Nov2024. I know it’s not about CO, per se. It’s about positives democratics news cycles and/or talking points aka Domino Effect.
Don’t they plan to have several states imitate this travesty immmediately ?
In any case, GOD wins and I think Trump does also.
MAGA 2024
Good piece by Laura Loomer, she interviewed Dave Williams, head of the Colorado state GOP. Interview starts at about the one hour mark. https://rumble.com/v427lmq-trump-removed-from-colorado-ballot-gay-sex-in-senate-chambers-exposed.html
Fortunately we spent 200 billion and 380,000 vassal lives defending Democracy for the Russian part of Ukraine. Viva la Democracia!
And allowed the ‘Horde of Morder’ to cross our southern border.
I see an excuse for confusion. A purposeful confusion where ballots in some CO areas will not have Donald J Trump printed on them.
No, they will program the cheating machines to not recognize the line with Trump on it. And write-ins will not be counted or tolerated.
They leave his name off the ballot (confusion) then say the remedy is to just write in Trumps name, leaving the whole thing open to interpretation.
But just for fun we should make this the top Google search “how to recall a Colorado supreme court judge”
We’ll need a special box in the corner for those ballots, then…
It will be that green dumpster in the corner. The ones that says recycle.
Nice! I like it!
Just asked Google that very question. And ask and ye shall receive, too:
https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/recallPetitions.html
So the court that made the judgement put a stay on their own judgement just so they could make the news. That is some psyops. But it was funny watching Luntz freak out about how this would help Trump. I thought McCarthy’s roommate was on our side. lol
NOT. Lumpy goes around doing propaganda focus groups on how the Rs lost in 2020 and we are all just sore losers. Meanwhile, on stage with him are the real losers pretending it was fair and legal. The creeps from AZ and GA, and all the ones who assisted the DIMs with the massive thefts.
He’s a sick L O S E R.
“Red & Blue” Special Edition: Focus Group about Election Integrity
By CBS News
20 Feb 2023
He’s pushing for receiving “The Gaslighting Person of The Year Award.”
Sundance covers Frank Klutz very well during the election (along with the Bush-ites/Uniparty). He’s always the go to man for the GOPe
Charles Crisp of Georgia, Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895.
In 1861 Charles Crisp enlisted in the Confederate army. Charles rose to the rank of lieutenant in the Tenth Virginia Infantry before being captured in May 1864. Somehow this person who served in the Confederate army and actively participated in an armed rebellion/insurrection managed to become Speaker of the House in spite of the 14th amendment.
Oh yeah, he was a democrat.
Well yes. The Democrats were the reason for the Civil War. Lincoln was a Republican.
Hmm… does this mean all registered Democrats should be forbidden to vote?
Yeah, interesting history. After Grant left office, even during his last term, the North, Republicans et al, got kinda squishy and stopped pursuing the “lawbreakers”, KKK and other Democrat criminals.
The Grant administration was rife with corruption, they were too busy. The U.S. government became obsessed with money as did bureaucrats and business.
Gee, THAT sounds familiar! The more things change, the more they stay the same!
By then the bankers had gotten almost everything they wanted.
Goals 90 percent achieved.
Then they got the Spanish American war and the Fed.
And here we are.
sect 3 14th – No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Crisp held no U.S. office prior to the war nor did he swear an oath of office to the Constitution.
In other words Crisp does not prove your point.
Corruption in the court system must brought to the light and access returned to we, the people.
the Colorado gop has a chorus 0f don’t Bogart that joint, my friend pass it over to me
That flashlight has unlimited light.
I’ve been a reader for quite a while and have not commented before now but I can’t help but comment at this time because this situation has me completely aggravated. I do not understand why Trump’s lawyers never point out the fact that there is no section 3 of the 14th amendment any longer.
The section has a clause allowing it to be removed by Congress and in June 1898 Congress fully and completely eliminated it, and there was no provision for re-instating it. I think I’ve seen one article that even mentioned the fact that this occurred but have not once seen it be used in any of these challenges.
Why is no one pointing this out?
Excellent point. Thank you for commenting!
I read that months ago, but somehow failed to keep a copy of what or where, in any case my memory supports your assertion and I’d love for this to get more fully explained and more widely disseminated, excellent point.
Welcome to the Treehouse!
Where I read it was https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-14/section-3/disqualification-clause.
Right now I’m wondering if the Trump team didn’t bring it up intentionally waiting to use it at the SCOTUS level. Thinking this through, perhaps they waited for some State court to make this ruling so they could take it before SCOTUS, at which point they’ll point that out in their arguments, allowing SCOTUS to rule in their favor by agreeing the disability ended 126 years ago, thus putting this to rest nation wide once and for all.
Saved the link; hopefully, the PDJT team of lawyers are now aware of that section’s removal.
Merci!
Because we have a uniparty ruling over us.
Excellent observation! Did not know that.
Interesting.
Why do you assume that all lawyers dealing with “Disqualification Clause” for more than 2 1/2 years are pinheads?
Basically you argue that Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment [1] is currently without effect.
Although countless articles have been published in well-known journals suggesting the opposite, and CREW, the left wing organization orchestrated the case in question, circulated a table of past disqualifications from public office under Section 3 [2], you “do not understand why Trump’s lawyers never point out the fact that there is no section 3 of the 14th amendment any longer“?
Here are two well known cases in short summaries:
I. In 1919 the House has concluded that Section Three disqualifications can’t be removed prospectively after investigated whether WI-Congressman Victor Berger, a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America (convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917), had incurred Section Three disqualifications. Berger pointed that Congress had passed a statue in 1898 which stated that “the disability imposed by Section Three of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States heretofore incurred is hereby removed.” Berger argued, that Section Three gives Congress the power to prospectively grant amnesty to future insurrectionists. The House disagreed, concluding that disqualifications could not be lifted prospectively.
Berger (and others) challenged his conviction in court, in 1921, SCOTUS overturned by 5-4 [3] because trial judge was biased.
As Berger wasn’t convicted, his election stands (for three successive terms).
II. After several registered Georgia voters challenged Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) candidacy for Congress in court [4], alleging that she is disqualified from holding office because she helped to plan the J6 rally, she argued similar to Berger:
In her response, Greene argued that a statute passed in 1872 removed Section Three disqualification from certain former Confederates immunizes her from Section Three disqualification because this gave amnesty to all potential future insurrectionists. On 4/18/22, Judge Amy Totenberg from Court of Northern District of Georgia disagreed [5], concluding that the plain text of the 1872 Amnesty Act precludes its prospective application.
Greene appealed that ruling nut on 6/14/22 to the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit filed an amicus brief in support of the Georgia voters, urging the court to affirm the district court’s ruling [6].
On 11/3/22, the same court remanded the case with instructions to dismiss for mootness, because the state proceedings were resolved in Greene’s favor [7].
While laypersons don’t need to know law when arguing in courts of public opinions, lawyers should otherwise the got tossed and blamed by those who are in the know!
[1] Overview of Disqualification Clause | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
[2] The precedent for 14th Amendment disqualification – CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (citizensforethics.org)
[3] Berger v. United States, 255 U.S. 22 | Casetext Search + Citator
[4] Greene v. Raffensperger, Civil Action 22-cv-1294-AT | Casetext Search + Citator
[5] Greene v. Raffensperger, 599 F. Supp. 3d 1283 | Casetext Search + Citator
[6] Microsoft Word – MTG Brief FINAL (theusconstitution.org)
[7] Marjorie Taylor Greene v. Secretary of State for the State of Georgia, et al, No. 22-11299 (11th Cir. 2022) :: Justia
The Bush Cartel at the bottom of it again…………the NWO/communism is their goal and the Bush China Foundation is the catalyst to conquer the West. Not only the US west- all the western nations.
God Help US
Sea Island’s Anschutz family has its name on several Denver buildings including a medical campus and the Anschutz Entertainment Group Center.
At least Trump made the headlines of every newspaper, website and TV news show in the world.
What do they say about any publicity is good, even if it’s bad?
I would be careful not to dismiss this so cavalierly. In a sane and just country, maybe, you could whistle past the grave, but not here, not today.
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JUST ANNOUNCED: President Trump jumps another 7 points higher in the polls after Colorado removes him from the ballot…!
LOL!
ROFLOL!!!
Lawfare does’t want this adjudicated at the Supreme Court because that would negate any other State that has this roadblock set in place.
I grew up in Broomfield,Colorado ( 60’s-70’s). It’s not the Colorado that I grew up in these days. It was entirely red with a little speck of blue just West of Denver. Boulder was just a benign tumor back then. The lone enclave for hyper-liberal moonbat enviro-fascists and hippies. The cancer, however, was ignored and allowed to metastaticize. Today, the State is Stage IV and terminal. I have fond memories growing up there and will always consider Colorado to be my home but, I do not recognize her anymore.
Because the hippies moved there and never left. All my hippie friends went to Colorado about 71-72, for their “Rocky mountain high”.
Vermont about the same … not so much hippies as ultra liberal east coast baby boomers ( and whatever they call the following generation ) moved up there and took over from the locals, as easy as a cuckoo bird taking over another bird’s nest ( I went to school there back in the day )
Here’s a better image of what progressives do to towns where Americans live: The crow finds another bird’s nest, kills the babies growing there, and steals the nest for its own progeny’s use.
Yeah! My dad got a job for the state of Vermont, and we moved up there when I was 10, in 1965 or so.
That liberal takeover was planned, and they DELIBERATELY started in Vermont.
My dad’s best friend and co-worker, Victor, came from MANY generations of native Vermonters. Qualified for Mensa, but never joined. Typical Vermonter, like, “silent Cal”. Dry sense of humor.
All this to explain the DEMOGRAPHIC situation, at the time, in VT. There literally, no joke, were more cows (Holsteins mostly, the black-and-white ones) in Vermont than people, per the census.
TPTB just figured out how to overwhelm the system with hippies, liberal flatlanders (from Boston), etc., and here we are today, decades later.
And The Pill was an evil product from Day 1.
Big families are making a comeback, but it will take time!
Pray your Rosaries, Fast, and hold on tight!
Senator Bernie Sanders.
Yes, CA made acid illegal. It was still legal in CO. All things old are new again.
“The lone enclave for hyper-liberal moonbat enviro-fascists and hippies”
And now these are the people in charge of the government.
The first state to be Kalifornicated .. So much like Texas..
And Cali was fornicated by our friends from the east on the Potomac.
Ditto, small town CA.
” Have we forgotten when Trump won the Colorado primary in 2016, and the delegates all promised to vote for Ted Cruz at the convention anyway.”
Yes, I had forgotten.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBwWjjpXAAAnlGR?format=jpg&name=small
Trumps poll # just jumped after Colorado
You don’t need to have a law degree to know bullshjt when you see it. These jerks should all be disbarred.
No Democrat should ever be allowed within a courtroom unless they’re defendants.
Lawfare is for pussies.
Alinsky was a mega pussy. (I am NOT referring to women when I use this phrase, I AM referring to metro-sexual beta male characteristics.)
Can’t win the game? Then break the rules. Total destruction just like the mal-adjusted child who throws a temper tantrum.
Think of the audience this pantomime is aimed at……not real Women or Men but value challenged and bubble headed soccer “moms” and soccer “dads”.
Boiled down this is the worst form of slander and the reprehensible behavior is engaged in by sitting justices of a state Supreme Court.
I don’t now nor will I ever find it humorous that such actions are countenanced in these United States of America.
Great catch. This is why we come to Sundance and cth. Liberal, activist judges who can’t tell the difference between a man and a woman deliberately obstructing justice and basic human fairness need to be held accountable in a legal construct. Some form of punishment needs to be imposed for their actions.
The actions of the Colorado Supreme Court (spit) ? They just took a que from the recent actions in the US Senate office building.
These liberal judges are just doing to this to test the SCOTUS on Trump issues. They want to know where they stand on Trump before the election. They want to know who they have in their pocket and who they don’t. So they know who to attack.
If they wanted to test the US Supreme Court, they would not have written the decision to ensure it never got there.
They just attack Thomas and Alito, to start.
Colorado again.? A state that pretends elections. My first thought was 2016 and what they did. Not just that but a constant assault to fair elections. Egg on the face when President Trump wins anyway with write in.
Eventually the elected officials are tired of hearing from their voters so the tasks falls to unelected bearcats in the courts to do their dirty work.
The concern is more the rabid partisan Secretary of State…
If this get thrown out…She will do whatever necessary to enable the voter fraud…
This can’t be laughed off as Sundance is suggesting.. many red lines have already been crossed. This is in many ways worse, as it isn’t about Trump alone but how the Deep State will wage lawfare in the future against any one who dares to fight their corruption and criminality
The “United” States is not going to be around for much longer if this 8 year long war by the Deep State against Trump culminates with either Trump being convicted or assassinated.The judicial machinations to disenfranchise Trump supporters makes the situation even more dangerous
The Deep State is hell bent on causing a real rebellion. they were deeply unnerved by the depth of support that Trump had/has.
This is not going to end well.
“8 year long war by the Deep State against Trump”
This is a Proxy War… AND THIS WAR IS JUST GETTING STARTED… the last eight years is just the opening act, so buckle up and hang onto your hat, if you have one!
Light the powder keg and get the rebellion started. Its either now or later.
To be fair, Sundance has been calling this fight The Big Ugly, and has been warning people that it’s going to get worse.
That said, you’re not wrong; the Deep State has been saying, yelling, shrieking, for the past 3+ years that they will not allow Trump to be president again. They run candidates against him. They throw lawsuits at him. They throw criminal charges at him. They’ve just begun disqualifying him from ballots (I do not believe CO is going to be the only state to try this; now that CO has done so, expect other states to get in on it). They will soon convict him in one or more of the criminal trials and attempt to imprison him, and then circle back to disqualifying him from ballots on the grounds that he’s a convicted criminal.
If & when the Lawfare options for dealing with Trump are exhausted, they’ll start gunning for him. Literally.
They’ve told us who they are. Repeatedly. Take them at their word. They are not going to stop until Trump is in prison or dead, and they don’t care which, so long as he never sets foot in the White House again. That is what Trump, and we, are up against.
^^^^ This. Is what I’ve been saying for years.
If President Trump wins reelection, I expect the lawfare crowd will turn and try to arrest or violently intervene before his inauguration. They can’t accept reality.
This is why I say this will all depend on the Secret Service. If attempted, will they allow PT to be arrested? Can you imagine an entire wing of a prison dedicated to SS and Trump? Crazy. Will they be there when Brutus and Company come with the knife? They can end this nonsense once and for all by making it clear and standing up for freedom.
The trolls are going to have a meltdown and this will be great fun watching them accept the truth.
Can Jack Smith get this fast-tracked to SCOTUS? Maybe Mary McCord could use some pillow talk to her husband who might be able to influence Roberts?
This is indeed all staged leftist lawfare, but the financial and time costs involved in defending against it are significant.
Reminds me again of SD’s mantra: “The process is the punishment.”
Conservatives have always held all demoncrat policies and positions are based on emotion and feelings, free of logic or forethought.
All of the past & present instances of goofy lawfare, rantings, and machinations are proof positive that we are correct. Damn the consequences, emotion rules their every decision.
CO prez primary election is meaningless. The GOP national convention delegates elect the nominee. CO delegates are elected at the state convention. Trump should ignore this.
No, he should not. He should play it big time. It is free advertising and will bring in more voters.
Acts 5:29 applies.
When your sworn enemies rush in to your defense, watch your back.
“Regardless of whether you support or oppose former President Donald Trump, it is outrageous to see left-wing activists make a mockery of our political system by scheming with partisan state officials and pressuring judges to remove him from the ballot,” Thom Brutus Tillis.
Why would the CO court include language which made it moot? The Colorado decision looks like just the set up to usurp State power and effectively end free elections.
Create a crisis, then use it to strip the American people of even more of our rights. That’s how we got the Patriot Act.
Of course it is a Republican, Richard Burr the Second, leading the charge to strip our rights, again !
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Sen. Tillis to Introduce Legislation Barring Federal Funds From States ‘misusing’ 14th Amendment
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-tillis-introduce-legislation-barring-013614752.html
SPIT!!!
So, we should ALL start REFUSING federal funds of any and all kinds! Now, how to make that happen at the, “political” level, higher up!
Trump’s numbers will go up as a result.
BTW, he should pick Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina as his running mate.
Robinson is a warrior. We need him as governor to decimate the Marxists and expose the UNiparty(R) rats.
I agree 100%, I made the same statement for Robinson as VP last week. As Dennis Miller says “I like the cut of his jib” PDJT would benefit from this guys firebrand no nonsense approach.
Oh, BINGO!!! He’d be FANTASTIC!!!
6 of those justices felt the need to impress and be accepted going by those grins plastered on their mugs. Wouldn’t trust them at all…..ever hear the phrase, “sober as a judge”? There was good reason for that phrase.
Is Marquez a midget? And is that Hart in any way associated with the Gary Hart of “Love boat” fame?
I’m feeling all Banana Republicky this morning, monti.
(Bottom left caught my eye as well.)
I’m feeling like there have been several lost generations raised with no values or standards Betsy.
The justice Melissa Hart is a granddaughter of Archibald Cox, the “Special” prosecutor of Watergate.
Apples-Trees eh?
I’m struggling these days, monti. Words I know are there won’t come. I have done my best with children and now the grands who are nearest to me. But it’s like having to pay for tickets to a hideous theatre production, sitting in the audience, wanting to leave with no means to do so. Captive…
As for the apple tree? Yes. And not far from it, dear friend.
Gary Hart of Monkey Business” fame?
Yes… Monica appears to be vertically challenged.
Losers…all of them…
is that Hannibal Lector in the top left?
They’re all liberals, so I see seven who were probably dead bottom in their class on Constitutional law…if they took it at all.
Thank you, MAGA Brother.
👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️
they are just trying to financially bankrupt trump. YAWN!!! But shame on all of them.
Makes no difference anyway even if they actually succeeded in removing him from the ballot. Besides the CO GOP being anti-MAGA, Colorado is probably blue forevermore… until a national economic crash anyway, a major crisis being the ONLY way that political reform will EVER be even remotely possible by awakening our attention deficit idiocracy from their games and circuses induced slumber.
United States presidential elections in Colorado
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elections_in_Colorado
Only a Collapse and Total Reboot Can Fix Our Bloated Government System
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tony-corvo/2016/11/14/only-a-collapse-and-total-reboot-can-fix-our-bloated-government-system-n48938
Excerpt:
Conservatives keep voting for candidates thinking that they will fix the bugs, but let’s look at what this approach would take. In one form or another we will have to:
1) Elect at least a generation of conservative supermajorities in both chambers of congress. They have to be supermajorities because parliamentary rules allow for political minority actions to stop simple majority legislation.
2) We will have to elect a string of conservative presidents to work with the conservative congresses. We can’t have activist presidents who govern by executive actions in order to bypass congress.
3) True constitutionalists must be nominated and approved to the Supreme Court.
4) Conservatives will have to control at least 37 state legislatures, because sooner or later we will need to make constitutional amendments.
Vivek is 1001% correct – this latest obscene abuse of our judicial system and banana republic move by Democrats should be used as a ‘litmus test’ – are you for free and fair elections? are you for our courts NOT being politicized? are you for the Constitution, and all the rights granted? are you against government corruption?
This is the litmus test that matters to America.
Once you understand that there is no rule of law anymore then it gets easier to understand. This does not just apply to national political figures or famous persons. In the U.S. today the average citizen can be charged with just about any crime regardless of evidence on a whim of the authorities with a 99% chance of conviction. I have seen it happen. This circumstance usually ends with a plea bargain because the average person has no financial ability to get a fair hearing so he takes the best deal he can get.
Note that what the DC and other prosecutors are doing to Trump is actually way worse that what just happened with this decision. We live in an era of Stalinist courts and show trials with prosecutor and LEO quotas that must be met with little consideration given to the truth.
Also note that prosecutors and LEOs are immune to any of the errors or crimes they commit. This includes obvious factual errors like this court just put forward.
There has only been one insurrection in this country and it was started by the Democrats. So they should all be disqualified from ever running for office again. Bring on the second Civil War. It is time for some pruning anyway.
If you use Justice William O. Douglas “Penumbra” theory of the Constitution the 14th amendment clearly only applies to Democrat Members of the Confederacy
Did ANYONE here actually read ALL of what Sundance posted? The court did NOT remove Trump from the ballot. Read what Sundance outlined in red.
The court “order” really is laughable. The deep state is becoming not so deep. Everything they are doing is starting to unravel.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. This is just an example of the many things that are developing behind the scenes. If Trump weathers these all bullets they have clips full and just need
more people with the courage to comply with the game
Just saw this on GP: even though Sundance showed that this ruling wont stick as long as there is an appeal, could the GOPe use this ruling as an excuse to not participate in the CO primary elections as a way to keep DJT from winning at least one state by default? Interesting thought…
Heres a scenario. A democrat TDS male going through a divorce needs to be taken to court over Alimony and Child Support where as his soon to be ex father in law is the judge and 2 or 3 Jurors are his ex wifes sisters and cousins……….no problem right
This Colorado ballot nonsense is expected in today’s world, however the most interesting component to this story is Vivek’s opportunistic role in the sudden “coincidental” removal of the reconciliation monument.
“The Framers of the 14th Amendment would be appalled to see this narrow provision—intended to bar former U.S. officials who switched to the Confederacy from seeking public office”
Wow! Impeccable timing, Vivek. Kinda like your COVID profits. Johnny on the spot, as they say.
I get the Lawfare’s angle. It is self explanatory and expected. They are.. and have always been clumsy oafish bullies, using tried and true mafioso style business tactics.
But Vivek, not sure I understand his role in this psychodrama.
They are looking for SCOTUS to affirm States plenary rights to determine which Electoral voters they send to the Electoral College. Lawfare from the Supreme Court of the state of Colorado. Here is a link that has direction to file complaints. I believe it is intended for complaints against attorneys but F-em
https://coloradosupremecourt.com/Complaints/File_ComplaintAgainstAtty.asp
Could you elaborate on what you are saying?
So are we cheering Colorado’s right to screw their own voters??
Voter fraud within the state legislatures is just as damaging, if not more so, than federal.
Sigh.
I am hoping President Trump does nothing and relies on Co. GOP to caucus a candidate and avoid GOP primary altogether. This is what Colorado republicans stated as intent soon after ruling, almost immediately
Swing states and others sent Faithless Electors that may or may not be included on the election day actual ballots (My hypotheses and certainly not confirmed). Colorado might be seeking precedence on such. Also certainly no way Supreme Court of Colorado was acting independently.
Sundance. I don’t mean to be selfish or spoiled, but…. Give me more Christmas presents!!! This is delightful!!!
The Colorado GOP wants your $$$ to fight this and to be ready to make quick changes if this illegal ruling stands.
https://www.cologop.org
Just sharing, not advocating. Enter at your own risk.
They do not have to fight it. The ruling is moot as soon as Trump’s attorneys file appeal with US Supreme Court.
The GOPe has their own agenda here and its not MAGA.