Posted on 08/27/2023 8:48:38 AM PDT by bitt
A challenge has been filed in a federal court seeking a declaratory relief on the eligibility of President Donald Trump to run in the 2024 Presidential Election.
The petitioner cites Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which disqualifies individuals involved in “insurrections” against the government from running for federal office.
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by Lawrence A. Caplan, alleges that Trump is constitutionally prohibited from running for president again due to his alleged involvement in the January 6 “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol.
Caplan claimed he has participated in the last twelve presidential elections and is a legal resident of Florida. He is also a member of various state bars and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, asserting that this gives him standing in the matter.
Below is a transcript from the complaint:
"The facts of this case are undeniably simple. Donald J. Trump served a the 45th President of the United States having won the election in 2016 and was inaugurated on January 20, 2017. He served for four years until he lost the 2020 Presidential Election to Joseph R. Biden, Jr. who took office on January 20, 2021. President Trump chose not to appear at the inauguration of his successor. Having left for his estate in South Florida while the ceremony was taking place…
On January 6, 2021, after giving a speech to a throng on the Ellipse near the Capitol, President Trump exhorted the throng to march to the Capitol and told them that he would be right there with them. After he was finished with his speech, Trump returned to the White House and watched he later events unfold on television. As we are well aware, the throng marched on the Capitol, forced their way into the Capitol building, ransacked the rotunda area, and even made their way into several offices of representatives and senators…
Of note, President Trump had sent out a tweet the day before claiming that “January 6th will be wild”. Trump also later remarked that the insurrectionists who had breached the Capitol were “special” and that “we love you”. He also later remarked that had Vice-President Pence simply done his job and refused to certify the results of the election that everything would have been fine. Not for several hours were the National Guard called in to quell the insurrection as allegedly President Trump refused to do so and had been mesmerized by the events that were taking place on his television at the White House…"
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Petitioner has also been a member of the Florida Bar since 1984, the State Bar of California since 1985, the Oregon State Bar since 1997, and is currently a member of the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
SCOTUS has 9 members, not one million.
There isn’t going yo be a 2024 election so not to worry. 😏
Democrat/Communist Party leaders have come to realize that with Trump's growing popularity -- including among portions of the Democrat/Communist Party's base, which scares the hell out of them -- cheating alone will likely not carry them to victory. Their plan now is to supplement cheating (which Democrat/Communists excel at) with eliminating the strongest competitor ... by first attempting to eliminate Trump by removing him from the ballot, then, if that's not enough, by eliminating Trump by any means possible which, in the minds of Democrat/Communists when their iron-fisted power is threatened, can mean anything ... and I do mean anything ... by any way and at any cost possible.
I believe you are wrong....
Right after another major shift towards Trump in Florida. I just pray the judges are straight.
Some judges may be loony enough to rule in favor. Dem or RINO.
Another waste of taxpayer $.
who was denied standing simply for being a citizen?
‘I believe this strategy will be effective and that Trump will not be on the ballot in November 2024.’
perhaps; personally, I believe any pub would lose in 2024, as I think their ceiling is 70 million votes, and I have no reason to think the 159 million turnout of 2020 would be any less...
the lousy electoral system we have has never been more evident; two men averaging 80 years of age, neither of whom have the approval of 40 percent of the electorate, and nobody seems to have any idea of how to replace both of them on the ballots...but should Trump be ousted on the ballot it will be interesting to see a third party run; after all, if he thinks he can win, why would he care about the letter after his name...?
if he shuns a third party try, that’s tantamount to an admission he can’t win...
“No standing.”
When has this stopped them?
Only anticommunist issues have no standing. There are no legal checks and balances against the communist party agenda.
I’m ready for a voting strike. Everybody should just do as the Chinese dissidents do and “lie flat”.
“There isn’t going to be a 2024 election so not to worry. 😏”
Bingo...
We may go through the useless motions, but there will never be a real election in this country again. There will never be a “true” Republican President again even if it appears the play script allowed for one to be elected.
The odds are over 160 million to one Trump will be elected. And if he is both parties will tie his hands so tight he will not be able to do one thing positive. Or they will kill him...
It is over, the Frog has done being boiled. And until we address this reality and accept our own denial nothing productive will ever get done.
It is over, the Frog has done being boiled. And until we address this reality and accept our own denial nothing productive will ever get done.
That is true...
Problem is...he was actually acquitted. https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-trial-live-updates/2021/02/13/967098840/senate-acquits-trump-in-impeachment-trial-again
allegation
Tell me you’re a five year old without telling ms you’re a five year old.
“We the People will write him in.”
Some states do not accept this. And those that do will illegally throw them away as “spoiled” ballots.
They already have a plan for this problem if it arises.
We keep expecting them to play by the rules. Reality is they never have and never will.
Applies only to former Confederates who wanted to run for federal office in the post Civil War era.
“We keep expecting them to play by the rules. Reality is they never have and never will.”
Exactly. They are lawless and they are extremely well-organized and well-funded. And our side continually and consistently underestimates our enemies... a recipe for perpetual failure.
Your devotion to Trump has turned you from a former believer in freedom, to a tyrant that refuses to tolerate anyone who offers a single non-compliant thought.
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