Posted on 12/20/2023 4:49:47 PM PST by CDR Kerchner
The 14th Amendment, ratified after the end of the Civil War, reads:
“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.”
Based on an incredibly flawed interpretation of that Amendment, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that Donald J. Trump’s name cannot appear on the state’s ballots. There are a multitude of problems with that decision:
1. Trump is not seeking to be “a Senator or Representative.”
2. Trump is not seeking to be an “elector of President and Vice President.” Electors are the people selected by the states to cast votes in the Electoral College; they are not the President or Vice President.
3. “[H]old any office, civil or military, under the United States” does not include the positions of president or vice president. If the positions of President and Vice President had also been intended, they would have been included in the prior phrase rather than just Senators, Representatives, or “elector[s].” (Why would the Amendment specifically mention Senators and Representatives and not President or Vice President? The reason is that the amendment was not intended to apply to those seeking the office of President or Vice President. Those choices were to be left to the voters.) https://www.thepostemail.com/2023/12/20/the-colorado-supreme-courts-stupid-stunt/
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Option #1: arm yourself with the facts & ruin their day
Option #2: don’t waste your time & just laugh at them.
I do arm myself with facts. Even if they win an argument, I’m coming back reloaded.
Great!
Perhaps the USSC would then declare that Colorado was in violation of Federal law and its election of Federal officers is invalid, and void. Plus, Colorado's electoral votes are also therefore deemed invalid and cannot be cast.
The 14th amendment section 2 has a punishment for abridging the right to vote:
But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.The Constitutional punishment for preventing voters from voting for Electors of their choice in a state should be the direct loss of seats in the House of Representatives, and the indirect loss of Electors in the next election.
If the Colorado Supreme Court blocks President Trump from appearing on the ballot, they are denying the entire state the right to choose President Trump. It doesn't matter what polling suggests the actual vote would be, the entire state is denied the choice.
The 14th amendment should punish Colorado with the loss of their ENTIRE House delegation, and with it their Electoral College allocation, leaving Colorado with only the two Electors based on the Senate.
-PJ
Perhaps next time the GOP, if a second party is even permitted to exist, might challenge ineligible D candidates like Obsma, Harris, and so forth.
Or maybe they’ll just keep doing nothing
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Just watch—this is all well thought out—Next California will ban trump, then New York, Georgia, New Mexico and Nevada, Washington—No Trump on any ballot in a Blue State. With Media support Orange man will be gone. What will Trump supporters do?—ZIP. Trump is toast. All they will do is say how bad President Newsom is. The GOP will put up Nikki as President and she will lose (Selected because she can win!—but she will not), This is just the first domino to fall and in the end its Trumps Last shebang. The FBI got their money’s worth on Jan-6 ‘insurrection.’ But, beware there is a thing called Karma.
There is no question that this will be fought 1 state at a time, because they want to keep him out of the cycle.
This will not be fought one state at a time. I’ll bet Roberts gets at least 2, maybe all three rat justices to go along. Even those hacks can see the danger to the Republic. I’ll bet there’s a reasonable chance it will be 9-0 taking out this trash
Brak wrote:
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It’s a ****ing stupid stunt...but more are signing on for it..https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1737550151323906431?t=SqkhOPBex0wgo8LlHPFpUA&s=19
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There’s more states in which suits like this have been filed; pretty dumb stunt on their part indeed.
This does not look good for the IQ of the people of Commierado!
Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!
Got that right. And stupid too. Like I’m going to run out and vote the down ballot to keep these morons in their gravy train jobs if Trump is off the ballot. As they sat there and did NOTHING to right this. Multiply that across country and Republicans will get SLAUGHTERED from Senate seats to dog catcher seats X 50 states. Which is part of the reason Dems are doing this, knowing Republicans are too stupid to understand.
All of this should convince a lot of people that the January 6 riots were planned and executed by the DNC and the biden government. The democrats have staked their future on it.
If states choose to ignore the Supreme Court ruling who enforces this punishment, and do they have the will to enforce the punishment.
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