Supreme Court Gives Colorado Secretary of State 10 Minutes to Argue Why Trump Should Be Blocked From Ballot

Geller Report ^ | Pamela Geller

[NoLibZone]

That’s ten minutes more than Trump got before they unilaterally kicked him off the ballot. And ten minutes more than Trump got when election fraud was brought before them in 2021.

Geller Report Mr. Snipe opines:

‘The real question is why the SCOTUS is hearing this case at all? Give her one minute. Why not tell this nut that the case has “No Standing” like Roberts did when election fraud was brought before them in 2021? Is Roberts going to rewrite the US Constitution on 14th like he did with Obamacare?

There are several immediate constitutional issues that even a squishy John Roberts and Amy Squishy Barrett should understand if they can read the 14th Amendment.

Prior constitutional scholars have argued that the 14th Amendment does not apply to presidents since he is a member of the executive branch and not as a public official or military member.

Trump has not been convicted of an insurrection under 14th Amendment Section 2. He was charged in second fake impeachment in 2021 and found not guilty.

The state elected courts, election boards, secretary of states, do not have jurisdiction over the 14th Amendment no matter what their state constitution states.

Even if Trump had been charged and exonerated of an insurrection by the US Senate during the second fake impeachment in 2021, under the 5th Amendment of double jeopardy he cannot be tried twice for same offense.

Even if Trump had been charged and convicted of an insurrection only Congress under 14th Amendment Section 5 can remove him from ballot using simple majority vote.

If Congress under 14th Amendment Section 5 removed him from ballot using simple majority vote, unlike an impeachment conviction he can still appeal his removal to the federal courts.

If Trump had been charged and convicted of an insurrection by the US Senate in 2021 by 2/3 vote during the second fake impeachment in 2021, he could not appeal the conviction and removal from the ballot.

So there-what’s all the fuss about?

Supreme Court Gives Colorado Secretary of State 10 Minutes to Argue Why Trump Should Be Blocked From Ballot The top court is weighing whether to rule in favor of or against a Colorado Supreme Court decision to bar Trump from the ballot on 14th amendment grounds.

By Tom Ozimek, February 2, 2024:

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday granted Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold—who called former President Donald Trump an “ineligible insurrectionist”—just 10 minutes at a hearing next week to argue before the court why she thinks he should be barred from the ballot.

Ms. Griswold, a Democrat and fierce Trump critic, has filed multiple briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court, which is weighing whether to rule in favor of or against the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar President Trump from the ballot on 14th amendment grounds. In a Jan. 26 filing with the U.S. Supreme Court, Ms. Griswold asked for enlargement and division of time for oral arguments at a hearing next week so that she could have time to provide the court with an “important perspective” on Colorado’s election laws. Story continues below advertisement

The Supreme Court said in its decision that it would grant Ms. Griswold just 10 minutes to make her case for why, according to her subsequent Jan. 31 filing, President Trump supposedly engaged in an insurrection and so should be barred from appearing on Colorado’s presidential ballot.

Even though Ms. Griswold did not take a position on President Trump’s eligibility during a trial in district court, she’s revealed her anti-Trump bias repeatedly, including when she went on CNN to denounce the former president as a “danger to American democracy.”

But when, on appeal, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled to bar President Trump from the ballot based on the idea that he had “engaged in insurrection” by delivering a speech on Jan. 6, Ms. Griswold said the court “got it right.”

[lepton]

None of the ex-Confederate officers and officials were charged with or convicted of insurrection yet the 14th did bar them from office until Congress ruled otherwise. The Amendment does not require trial or conviction.

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In that case, however, the Confederacy was a declared action, and people signed up for it, took oaths in support of it, and were explicitly paid for it.

[AlanSC]

No section 3 of the 14th which is what they are trying to claim is not self enforcing despite what Lawrence tribe and the rest of the frauds claim. Section 5 is Congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article, not the courts and not some YouTube watching cow from Maine. Congress passed the insurrection and rebellion act as a result. This was to keep confederates from office. And at the end of the day, President Trump has not been charged with insurrection. Just because the Dems and assistant Dems say it is an insurrection does not make it one. They cannot just pronounce him guilty just as a court cannot just declare you are guilty of a crime without a trial. Do you understand yet or just want to keep pretending that President Trump’s political opponents are on the up and up here?

[Candor7]

Orange Man Bad.......run for your lives and hide your daughters!

The fake caterwauling is ludicrous . Let the voters decide.

[Candor7]

It's the oral argument phase.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The left tries to argue orally?

Ten minutes of this crap?

SCOTUS is starting to look bad.

Will Trump have equal time?

[dfwgator]

George Carlin was right.

[hanamizu]

Do you understand yet or just want to keep pretending that President Trump’s political opponents are on the up and up here?

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Perhaps you misunderstood my posts. I have never said the dems are on the up and up, only that they are trying to take advantage of what they think might be a way of keeping Trump out of the White House. I was pointing out the historical fact that only a very few (1?) Confederates were ever charged or convicted of any crimes in regards to the events of the Civil War.

People reacting to the Maine, Colorado et. al. stunts are saying that Trump was never charged or convicted of ‘insurrection’ which is irrelevant when it comes to the 14th Amendment disqualification from holding office.

Then there’s the patent absurdity of referring to Jan. 6 as an ‘insurrection’ or even worse ‘an armed insurrection’. But the dems apparently have no shame, do they?

[1Old Pro]

Throw this out and give Ms. Griswald a swift kick in the ars.