Posted on 12/21/2023 6:01:44 AM PST by Red Badger
Democrats also attempted to remove Abraham Lincoln from the ballot. Lincoln prevailed anyway. The rest is history.
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Democrats in the Colorado Supreme Court ruled last night that President Trump’s name will not be listed on the Colorado ballot in 2024.
Ironically, these far-left justices used a post-Civil War Amendment that no Democrats voted for at the time, to block the leading opposition candidate from the ballot.
This was not the first time Democrats pulled this trick during a national election for President of thee United States.
As Randy DeSoto reported at Western Journal back in November – The last time Democrats pulled such a stunt was in the presidential election of 1860, when Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln’s name did not appear on most Southern states’ ballots.
Abraham Lincoln was still able to win the election with a plurality of the popular vote in the rest of the country. The Democrat plot failed.
Abraham Lincoln won the election with 180 electoral votes.
Following the Civil War, Republicans passed the 14th Amendment in 1868 to guarantee the newly freed slaves equal protection under the law. 94% of Republicans voted for the amendment. 100% of Democrats voted no on the amendment!
According to DeSoto,
Section 3 of the amendment made it unlawful for those who took an oath of office to support the Constitution of the United States and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same” to hold federal office unless Congress — by a two-thirds majority — votes to remove the disability.
What Democrats and NeverTrump Republicans are trying to establish through state courts in Colorado, Minnesota and Michigan, so far, is that Trump engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the U.S. government on Jan. 6, 2021, and therefore should be ineligible to serve.
They are hanging their case on the conduct of some of the protesters in the Capitol incursion who became violent in an attempt to disrupt the Electoral College vote.
Democrats attempted and failed to stop Abraham Lincoln from becoming the U.S. president. That didn’t work.
Today, this same party of slave owners and the KKK is hoping to block President Trump from the ballot.
It’s now up to the Supreme Court to shoot them down.
Speaking of the civil war
Somewhat related video
(Who’s going to tell her about “Republican” confederates”)
Video
NYT’s Mara Gay on Republicans criticizing Colorado for banning Trump from the ballot: “Why are you standing with confederates who betrayed this country?”
https://rumble.com/v42cgh6-nyts-mara-gay-on-republicans-criticizing-colorado-for-banning-trump.html
The “Civil War” was a was between Republicans and Democrats.
When it comes to politics, the weaselly Democratz always make their own rules. They are the most worthless people living in our country.
BTTT
And both because they wanted to free the slaves.............
I do think the discussion of the 14th Amendment in the post CW context is interesting.
As I understand it....many people urged Jefferson Davis to run again for the Senate. He didn’t want to serve, and he didn’t want to do anything to seek “permission” to run as it were, and (I believe) he had been demoted to non-citizenship status (which would have made him ineligible to serve in the Senate, right?). But of course stripping him of citizenship was never adjudicated - I think it was just done administratively. He was indicted for treason, but never tried...as neither side wanted to risk a trial.
It’s interesting as civil war (I’m just using that term for discussion purposes) is basically a non-recognized legal activity. There is nothing legal about it. It’s just an outbreak of violence. So establishing/re-establishing legal norms is not easy and looking back at it, you can say “well, that wasn’t legal” and you’d be correct.
In any event...I don’t think it is settled as to whether Jeff Davis “could” have served in the Senate had a southern legislature sent him there. He had not been “convicted” of treason or insurrection. But he was also sort of not eligible because he wasn’t a citizen. (His citizenship was restored in 1978).
This is somewhat relevant to the CO discussion....because obviously only the media has accused Trump of “insurrection”. They are just flat out wrong on this. But there’s not a lot of litigation/decisions on how to stop insurrectionists from serving in public office.
I’d love to hear from better historians and appelate Constitutional lawyers on this. Thank you.
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Awesome.
Yeah, the democRATS have not been this mad since Abe Lincoln, a republican, freed their slaves!
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All the serving politician’s who supported and enabled the BLM riots in 500 plus cities should be banned from the ballots. That’s damn near every democrat card carrying communist in the USA. Illegal aliens, nix gov of Kalifornia. It’s gonna be a shit-show by Nov 24.
:NeverTrumpin':
Any other former Jefferson Davis Jr. High students on FR?
Bttt.
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“One key difference between modern elections and those of the mid-nineteenth century is that at the time the state did not print and distribute ballots.
“In theory, any document containing a valid or at least non-excessive number names of citizens of a particular state (provided they were eligible to vote in the electoral college within that state) might have been accepted as a valid presidential ballot; however, what this meant in practice was that a candidate’s campaign was responsible for printing and distributing their own ballots (this service was typically done by supportive newspaper publishers).
“Moreover, since voters did not choose the president directly, but rather presidential electors, the only way for a voter to meaningfully support a particular candidate for president was cast a ballot for citizens of his state who would have pledged to vote for the candidate in the Electoral College.
“In ten southern slave states, no citizen would publicly pledge to vote for Abraham Lincoln, so citizens there had no legal means to vote for the Republican nominee. In most of Virginia, no publisher would print ballots for Lincoln’s pledged electors”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_presidential_election
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