Posted on 10/13/2023 1:41:50 PM PDT by thegagline
A Colorado judge has rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to keep him off the ballot here, ruling that his objections on free-speech grounds did not apply.
Trump’s attorneys argued that a Colorado law protecting people from being sued over exercising their free speech rights should shield him from the suit, but Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace said that law doesn’t apply in this case.
The law also conflicted with a state requirement to get the question about Trump's eligibility resolved quickly, ahead of the Jan. 5 deadline for presidential candidates' names to certified for the Colorado primary, Wallace wrote.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington claims in its lawsuit that putting Trump on the ballot in Colorado would violate a provision of the 14th Amendment that bars people who have “engaged in insurrection” against the Constitution from holding office. *** The Colorado case is one of several involving Trump that stand to test the Civil War-era constitutional amendment, which has never been ruled on by the U.S. Supreme Court. Along with lawsuits filed in Minnesota and Michigan, it has a good chance of reaching the nation’s high court.
The lawsuits also involve one of the arguments Trump has made in criminal cases filed against him in Washington, D.C., and Georgia for his attempt to overturn his 2020 loss — that he is being penalized for engaging in free speech to disagree with the validity of the vote tally.
Colorado's case will focus in part on the meaning of “insurrection” under the 14th Amendment, whether it applies only to waging war on the U.S. or can apply to Trump's goading of a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to halt the certification of President Joe Biden's win.
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Judging by what they elect to office I don’t think they care if conservatives visit their stinking state.
A Republican AG needs to sue Colorado ASAP. If there is a dispute between the states, then it becomes the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction and they can take the case immediately. Otherwise the left can run out the clock.
What ruling was that?
“Judging by what they elect to office I don’t think they care if conservatives visit their stinking state.”
You greatly reduce their gross income and they will reconsider. Bet on it. Just like Bud Light. But everyone is too lazy to do it anyhow. This is why we are losing, we keep trying to find excuses to stay on the couch, watch the ballgame, and personally do nothing that might actually make a difference.
We are getting exactly what we deserve because of this personal inaction alone.
Judge actually said that the 1st Amendment does not apply?
Those piece of sh*t “judges” reject EVERYTHING President Trump and his lawyers ask for. I hope Trump gets reelected and brings down karma on them in the form of dump truck loads of cow sh*t.
Another case for the SC to eventually decide
Preposterous, too.
The punishment is spelled out. But you don’t have to be found “Guilty” to get it?
at this point theses judges should be removed. I would object to them siting on any case. the communist have infiltrated of all aspects of government.
Money and time spent on fighting to be on the ballot in each of the 50 states is part of the strategy by the Left.
Absolute banana republic evil.
Sarah B. Wallace is a stooge of the Colorado 2nd Judicial District. Wallace assumed office on January 10, 2023. Wallace’s current term ends in 2029.
Governor Jared Polis (D) appointed Wallace to the court to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of stooge Ross Buchanan.
"Judge rejects Trump attempt to toss Colorado lawsuit seeking to bar him from the ballot"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots are reminded that 12th Amendment (12A) electoral vote rules reasonably indicate (imo) that presidential electors are expected to write in name of choice for POTUS, no mention of states limiting ballots to non-popularly elected political party candidates.
Excerpted from 12A:
"The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President [emphasis added], and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate, [...]"
And while we're talking about 12A, patriots are also reminded that the next major political event in U.S. is not Democratic and Republican Trump-supporting patriots reelecting hopeful Trump 47 for a second time. The next important political event is when patriots support Trump with new state and federal governments by primarying ALL incumbent state and federal lawmakers and executives up for reelection, except for MTG, Gaetz & Company, Jordan (and others?), in 2024.
After all, lawmakers and executives continue to show that they do not have the patriotism and leadership skills necessary to find legislative support for effective remedies for unconstitutional government policies.
Exclusive: Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Dumbfounded’ GOP Colleagues Will Not Call for Biden’s Impeachment! (6.10.23)
Trump can endorse candidates from lists that patriots who respect the federal government's constitutionally limited powers provide for him, as long as candidates are not incumbents, candidates also promising to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A) after they win office.
Consider the repealing of 16&17A as part of reparations for taxpayer victims of the corrupt federal government for having to pay a lifetime of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
The definition of insanity is reelecting your beloved career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting those same politicians to find remedies for unconstitutional government policies every time.
Patriots, let's not allow ourselves to be fooled for third time in 2024 by the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments.
Finally as a side note about 12A, consider that probably the main reason that we hear media complaints about the electoral college is the following.
The electoral college is now the only thing stopping the corrupt political parties from permanently establishing a puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
It is as true as the accusations against President Trump. Whether it is factual is irrelevant to Democrats.
“Trump’s goading of a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021”
That’s all you need to read to know this is BS hit piece...
“...Another case for the SC to eventually decide...”
Traitor Roberts has TDS.
Nor charged with it.
When did everybody become trans or trans-apparent all of a sudden?
Trump won’t need Colorado, Biden will. If Trump is not on the ballot, all republicans in Colorado should vote for RFK,Jr. Along with disgruntled democrats, that should assure Kennedy wins Colorado and takes the electoral votes out of Biden’s column.
Other states should follow suit.
Trump wins
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