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If Democrats get to decide who competes in Republican primaries, do Republicans get to decide who competes in Democrat primaries? Or is this another one of those “the rules only apply when they favor our team” things?
The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered former President Donald Trump to be barred from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot under a Civil War-era insurrection clause, in a historic ruling certain to be promptly appealed to the nation’s highest court…
In the court’s 4-3 decision, Justices Monica Márquez, William Hood, Richard Gabriel and Melissa Hart made up the majority, while Chief Justice Brian Boatright and Justices Carlos Samour and Maria Berkenkotter dissented. All seven justices on the state Supreme Court were appointed by Democratic governors.
The case is headed right to the Supreme Court with the intended aim of further poisoning the process.
So let’s play this game.
The disqualification clause is a Civil War relic which, like a lot of unconstitutional measures from that area, is a disaster that we mostly just ignored. It’s open-ended enough that it can be applied widely, much like the Insurrection Act which should have been, but was not invoked in response to the BLM riots. This means that Democrats can apply it to Trump and Republicans can apply it to… anyone who supports riots and opposition to the Constitution or the United States government.
Take it from the Colorado justices.
“Section Three does not determine who decides whether the disqualification has attached in the first place” and “the Colorado legislature has established a process—a court proceeding pursuant to section 1-1-113—to make the determination whether a candidate is qualified to be placed on the presidential 60 primary ballot. And, for the reasons we have already explained, that process is sufficient to permit a judicial determination of whether Section Three disqualification has attached to a particular individual.”
If Democrat state courts and legislatures can prevent Republicans from appearing on the ballot, Republican legislatures and courts can prevent Democrats from appearing on the ballot.
Colorado Dems somehow think this wouldn’t possibly apply to them. Why not?
Any supporter of BLM can be classified by state legislatures as an insurrectionist and then blocked from the ballot. That includes Biden and Kamala.
In, say Georgia, it would include Senators Warnock and Ossoff.
Now this ruling won’t stand, but it would be more instructive for Republican states to start putting the wheels into motion for why this is a terrible idea and why leftists should curse the day they ever thought of it, than relying on a Supreme Court whose only reliable conservatives are two men in their seventies to bail out the rule of law.
Tell the mob that, sorry folks, your own justices have determined that any state legislature can decide who is disqualified for federal office. And insurrectionists and their supporters who “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof” do not qualify.
Absolutely Republicans should do the same to Democrats. It’s the only way to fight back. At least make them pay a nuisance tax for pulling tricks like that
By removing the opposition party’s leader from the ballot, Colorado Democ-rats are playing the same sort of “trick” that their Democ-rat predecessors– insurrectionist Confederates– played when they attacked Fort Sumter in 1861. Yet again, the gambit is intended to provoke squeamish Republicans into submission. Back then, Republicans led by Abraham Lincoln had a different idea, and vanquished the exclusionary Democ-rat states in a bloody civil war. Apparently, the descendants of Democ-rat slave-holders are spoiling for a re-match, with the likes of transgendered Admiral Rachel Levine leading the charge. Really? Call their bluff. Vote MAGA.
Kick the Judge off the Bench Period kick out the United Nations return Soros to his Home Nation to face War Crimes Tial and be hanged
The real insurrectionists are the ones who stole the 2020 elections.
And BLM and Antifa insurrectionists who openly rioted and chanted slogans about destroying America and its government, and the Dirtbagocrat operatives who perpetrated the January sixth setup. I’m not sure who’s worse, them or the ones who stole the 2020 elections. It’s like deciding between venomous snakes and the ebola virus.
It’s a tough row to hoe, especially when you consider many “Republicans” don’t want Trump on the ballot either. RINOs have already set precedence recently by feigning “the high road”, so I’ll assume any conservative legislator that brings up the ‘Section Three Gambit’ to be a true MAGA conservative who deserves our support.
Tucker Carlson recently postulated riots on a national scale if Trump wasn’t allowed to run. I guess we’ll see…otherwise democracy dies with a whimper.
TRUMP ’24
and the world ends not in a bang, but in a ”duh”
You make a good point, I just had to add my own personal favorite saying to the end. Because after all, we will die of stupidity if God does not intercede.
I hate to say this, but there is so much stupid going around these days that God is slipping up if he is supposed to intercede. Hopefully, natural selection will actually start working and the stupid will manage to weed themselves out, but I’m not going to hold my breath.
Yeah, we could end up with “The Marching Morons” or “Idiocracy.”
Yep. Another issue to divide the country – and it doesn’t matter what side of the issue you’re on. The point is to create any volatile issue with two absolute opposing sides, fer and agin, that will finally pull apart the country. Distracted by yet another family feud, America becomes even weaker and more unfocused to resist the planned Nazi caliphate takeover. Can the American spirit be broken by Nov. ‘24?
The rush is on and a lot more to come, all pre-planned, like clockwork, don’t you think?
It’s just a bunch of thugs trying to cover up the voter fraud.
Trump is right for claiming voter fraud did happen.
Yes, only liars, Dirtbagocrat fanatics and retards claim otherwise.
The answer is yes, Biden should be banned from a state ballot or two, because that’s the only way to stop Democrats from doing this again. The GOP has to play hardball for a change, but they won’t.
No. Because the tit for tat game can then be played out in perpetuity and Democrats will have the upper hand every time. Much better if the GOP leadership shows some intestinal fortitude and pursues every legal avenue available to stop the Phase I of the 2024 election steal.
Yeah, as if the Dirtbagocrats won’t break any law and pull every dirty trick there is anyway.
How have those “legal avenues” been working out for Trump, the January sixth political prisoners, gun owners and parents who disagree with school boards?
Well, Kamala Harris should certainly be similarly prosecuted. On June 17, 2020, she said on the Stephen Colbert program, “This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop and everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. Everyone should take note of that on both levels. They’re not going to let up and they should not and we should not.” So she said the riots should not let up. If Trump saying that people should protest “peacefully and patriotically” is incitement to insurrection, certainly telling people that their rioting should continue must be. “What’s good for the goose…,” after all.