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Listen Live: Supreme Court hears case on 'insurrection,' Trump eligible to be president again
Just the News ^ | 2/8/24 | staff

Posted on 02/08/2024 6:55:13 AM PST by CFW

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To: circlecity
He focused on the strongest arguments and didn’t get sidetracked.

His entire case was threaded through tenuous, ancient precedents. This would have been the correct approach for a complex regulatory case, but not for one which could unweave the fabric of our democracy. Thankfully, even some of the liberal justices made the bigger, more pertinent arguments for him.

381 posted on 02/08/2024 9:33:11 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Ronaldus Magnus
Trump's attorney Jonathan Mitchell was either unqualified for the task or compromised by outside forces.

You're either a DIM-BULB LIBERAL.. or you're doing some HALLUCINOGENIC DRUG!

382 posted on 02/08/2024 9:33:13 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

It will be 9-0. The libs will hold their powder to decide the the bigger questions if and when Trump gets elected.


383 posted on 02/08/2024 9:34:12 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Ronaldus Magnus

The strongest arguments here were article 3 and 5 of the 14th amendment and Trump’s attorney hammered on them. Colorado tried to dance around them.


384 posted on 02/08/2024 9:35:51 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Tennessee Nana

about to go to NV

He could get more than 96% at the caucuses


Hoping he gets that!!

The lying MSM are such lying jackals.


385 posted on 02/08/2024 9:37:38 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Alberta's Child

I agree. The lower courts have no such power either. Colorado should lose its votes in the electoral college for even attempting this and have to reapply in a decade.


386 posted on 02/08/2024 9:38:00 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Fury

Show me where wiseass.


387 posted on 02/08/2024 9:39:11 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Jane Long

I was thinking about how Joe crowed over his 96% when he was about the only one on the ballot...

Thats why I want President trump to get as much and even more

If nobody can beat Nikki in an NV primary where there were probably Ds and Is voting for her, then President Trump should be able to crush her in the caucuses of only Rs

:)


388 posted on 02/08/2024 9:42:47 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: VideoDoctor

“I’m believing that Trump will DEFLECT ALL CHARGES and remain under GOD’S “hedge of protection.””


I pray daily that God keeps Trump in that “hedge of protection”. I pray that God surrounds him constantly with angels that thwarts the left’s every action against him.


389 posted on 02/08/2024 9:42:58 AM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: HYPOCRACY
Show me where wiseass

You can start with Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137

390 posted on 02/08/2024 9:43:34 AM PST by Fury
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To: CFW

God favors the side with the most artillery - Napoleon.


391 posted on 02/08/2024 9:46:33 AM PST by circlecity
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To: bitt
Gorsuch - “who decides what is insurrection”?

Did you catch counsel's response to that question? I wasn't able to listen.

It was an intentionally obvious question in the context of the 14thA and should have been an obvious answer.

Thanks.

392 posted on 02/08/2024 9:48:16 AM PST by frog in a pot (answer)
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To: DOC44

I’ve been predicting a 7-2, but after listening to the last hour of the hearing I’m leaning towards a 9-0 probability. Kagan and KJB sound unconvinced.


393 posted on 02/08/2024 9:52:03 AM PST by Michael.SF. (There is only one reason why I will ever vote for a Republican: Democrats)
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To: circlecity
The strongest arguments here were article 3 and 5 of the 14th amendment

The strongest arguments in President Trump's favor were the implications that every state would be able to arbitrarily remove presidential candidates from their ballots. Even Justice Kagan noted that. Aside from needlessly conceding many decisive points, Jonathan Mitchell's argument was profoundly myopic. He was the wrong attorney for this case. Sadly, President Trump has a long history of putting unqualified and compromised people in critical positions. Hopefully he will do better in his second term.

394 posted on 02/08/2024 9:52:03 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Ronaldus Magnus

“Sadly, President Trump has a long history of putting unqualified and compromised people in critical positions”

Yep. If he’s got an achilles heel.....that would be it.


395 posted on 02/08/2024 9:53:43 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: jacquej
After Obama won the 2008 election, I wrote a commentary asking the question, "Women's Right to Vote, the Beginning of the End for America? (FReeper link w/comments) (this is the link to the original FReeper thread from 3/29/09)

I must admit it generated a lot of support and negative responses from our fellow FReepers. Today, I believe many more would be more in agreement than they were after the 2008 election.

The link to the original commentary I wrote is no longer working, but the almost 600 comments still exist at the link above in the FR archive and are worth reading.

The link below will take you to the full article, I saved it to my own personal website, (trfmf.com) after the Chico Enterprise Record newspaper removed me from their staff with the newspaper. The newspaper systematically removed all trace I ever wrote for them in 2012. However, I found it and other things I wrote using the Wayback Machine via archive.org if you are interested in reading the original commentary.

Women's Right to Vote, the Beginning of the End for America? (full commentary via trfmf.com)
396 posted on 02/08/2024 9:54:44 AM PST by OneVike ( Just another Christian waiting to go homeu)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus

And Trump’s attorney argued that in support of article 5.


397 posted on 02/08/2024 9:56:18 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Tennessee Nana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H12JnUVbE4

DJT’s response to the SC hearing

scroll ahead


398 posted on 02/08/2024 10:00:03 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: justme4now

Just a guess, but I am thinking that the bigger issue here, as stated earlier, is jurisdiction. A ruling that CO has no jurisdiction in Federal elections prevents other challenges later on that might not rely only on the candidate being charged with insurrection.

This would be a broader ruling that states cant deny candidates from ballots.


399 posted on 02/08/2024 10:03:13 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Ronaldus Magnus
Trump's attorney Jonathan Mitchell was either unqualified for the task or compromised by outside forces

LOL

400 posted on 02/08/2024 10:04:44 AM PST by M. Thatcher
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