It's Not Just Trump: Democrats Trying to Disqualify Other Republican Candidates Using the 14th Amendment

Red State ^ | 01/04/2024 | Jeff Charles

[SeekAndFind]

Former President Donald Trump is apparently not the only Republican that Democrats are trying to remove from the ballot. The left has begun going after other candidates using the 14^th Amendment in their effort to influence the outcome of the 2024 election.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) has found himself in the crosshairs with a new lawsuit filed in his state seeking to disqualify him from holding office under Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment, according to political commentator and Georgetown University Law School professor Jonathan Turley.

As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Republican Rep. Scott Perry.

It’s only the latest effort targeting congressional candidates as Democrats seek to bar opponents as “insurrectionists” for questioning the election of President Biden.

We have become a nation of Madame Defarges — eagerly knitting names of those to be subject to arbitrary justice.

Former congressional candidate Gene Stilp, who’s made headlines by burning MAGA flags with swastikas outside courthouses, filed the challenge.

Turley also notes another effort to disqualify a Republican in Pennsylvania.

The filing against Perry came the same day Pennsylvania Democratic state Sen. Art Haywood made public a complaint to the Senate Ethics Committee against his Republican colleague Doug Mastriano accusing him of playing a role in the plot to overturn the election.

Notably, in his effort to “hold insurrectionists accountable,” Haywood admitted he relied on the same evidence from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington that was used in the Colorado case.

The whole idea was already ridiculous when Democrats started trying to use the 14^th Amendment to target Trump. Now, this issue has descended further into the realm of the absurd as they seek to disqualify as many Republicans from the ballot as possible.

Unfortunately, the 14^th Amendment Strategem picked up momentum after Colorado’s Supreme Court voted to remove Trump. They were quickly followed by Maine, whose secretary of state made the same decision. Now, it appears that Democrats are launching a full-court press to see how many GOP candidates they can disqualify instead of allowing the people to decide who should represent them.

This entire ploy has become a ludicrous political sideshow as Democrats seek to increase their odds of winning in 2024. The left still refuses to acknowledge the hypocrisy of condemning conservatives for claiming the 2020 election was rigged as they are blatantly trying to rig upcoming elections.

The Supreme Court needs to shut this down right now. It is clear that the left has no real argument for disqualifying candidates by claiming they are insurrectionists. If this is allowed to continue, there won’t be anything stopping them from arbitrarily applying the insurrectionist label to anyone they don’t like. It is not as if there are non-partisan officials in these states to stop these cynical efforts to skew the outcomes of future elections. It has become clear that many left-leaning officials are more than willing to rubber-stamp these lawsuits due to political concerns.

On Wednesday, Trump filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse the Colorado ruling. Hopefully, the justices will put an end to this once and for all.

[FlingWingFlyer]

We need to cancel the 2024 erection. It’s already become a joke thanks to the DOJ, FBI and the multitudes of Feral “judges” owned by the Dung Beetle Party.

[Steely Tom]

Oh gee. I thought they would stop after they used it against Trump. How surprised I am.

[TexasFreeper2009]

it is past time we retaliate by throwing Democrats off the ballot for encouraging the BLM insurrection!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Meanwhile, in Sacramento, CA, true insurrectionist Hamas Palestinian terrorists forced the California legislature to adjourn under serious threat of violence.

[Sacajaweau]

Easy one for the Supreme Court...No State Court or State Office holder can eliminate a PRESIDENTIAL candidate except he/she does not fulfill the Constitutional requirements or the normal state requirements to get on the ballot.

Going outside those bounds is not allowed.

The decision will be unanimous and I'm betting the Court will chastise the States royally.

[RasterMaster]

If the democraps were so confident in their chances, they’d not need to pull out the “smokes-for-votes” “booze-for-votes” “sex-for-votes” schemes every election cycle. They wouldn’t judge shop to keep polls open long after closing time, they’d not need to find “missing” boxes of ballots in the trunks of cars or under the stairs of obscure black churches to gain a win. If the democrats were legitimately electable, they’d not have to fight over dimpled chads after trying to stuff too many ballots at once into the vote-a-matic they proudly displayed at an Al Gore rally in 2000. They'd not need to import more slaves to the party after either aborting or driving out the majority of their "base" of triggered fringe groups. They certainly wouldn't need to file frivolous lawsuits in their "bluest" states to keep Trump off of the ballot.

[Eccl 10:2]

Some court (SCOTUS?) needs to hand down or uphold a SEVERE beatdown on anyone who files these frivolous election lawsuits. Disbar every lawyer in the entire firm/agency.

This “the process is the punishment” bullshit MUST stop, with extreme prejudice.

[vivenne]

Call me when they try to stop Nikki Haley from being on the ballot......

[SeekAndFind]

RE: The decision will be unanimous and I’m betting the Court will chastise the States royally.

Boy, you have such faith and confidence in the likes of affirmative action pick Ketanji Brown Jackson (yes, the one who doesn’t know the definition of a woman ) ....

[sten]

dems: “They must be removed from the ballot for opposing us!”

doj: “Mr republican, do you admit to opposing the democrat agenda?”

gop: “Definitely. 100% !”

doj: “Then you are guilty of trying to disrupt the function of govt. off the ballot you go !”

[Robert357]

When politicians can veto candidates to determine who is on an election ballot, then you no longer have democracy or anything close.

Can you imagine what Democrats would have said if Hillary Clinton had been thrown off the ballot before she lost to Trump? Can you imagine how the “race card” would have been played if Obama had been disqualified because some court ruled in a lawsuit sponsored by Republicans that he wasn’t “natural born?”

[Dan in Wichita]

It will be 6-3 at best in favor of Trump. More likely 5-4, with cowardly quisling Roberts joining the Marxists.

If the Marxist party can flip one of the three Trump appointees, they win.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Some court (SCOTUS?) needs to hand down or uphold a SEVERE beatdown on anyone who files these frivolous election lawsuits. Disbar every lawyer in the entire firm/agency.”

I would start by firing every Soros funded AG and DA.

[Vaduz]

The democrats keep proving how much more Trump is capable of being president by their childish games.