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Knowing They Will Lose At The Ballot Box, Soros-Funded Leftists Turn To Lawfare To Defeat Trump, Including Keeping His Name Off the Ballot
The Federalist ^ | 11/03/23 | Mike Davis

Posted on 11/03/2023 10:25:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A left-wing organization that exists to abuse the legal system to harm Republicans is launching a Hail Mary attempt to take Trump off the ballot.

If leftists have their way, the 2024 presidential election will be decided in courtrooms by liberal judges — not by Americans at ballot boxes across the country. With President Biden’s poll numbers at all-time lows and public polling showing former President Trump consistently leading in 2024, Democrats are scrambling not to win the support of voters but to simply disqualify their opponent through Democrat operatives, attorneys, and judges.

This strategy is especially rich coming from the “democracy is on the ballot” crowd. Apparently, “democracy is on the ballot” means only Joe Biden is on the ballot. 

I’ve been in Denver this week witnessing the latest use of lawfare to defeat Trump in front of Democrat judges instead of American voters. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is behind the irresponsible and left-wing billionaire-funded lawsuit. CREW, which received funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, has a history of frivolous lawsuits targeting Donald Trump.

The left-wing organization exists to abuse the legal system to harm Republicans, and they might get lucky this time with their Hail Mary attempt to take out Trump. The judge presiding over their case is Sarah Wallace, a Democrat donor who was appointed just last year by Democrat Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.

CREW’s lawsuit wants Wallace to order Democrat Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold — who’s pretending to be neutral — to remove Trump from the state’s ballot next year. The lawsuit argues Trump is guilty of “insurrection” and is ineligible due to the 14th Amendment’s Disqualification Clause used to chase out of office Confederate insurrectionists who fought against the Union in the Civil War. The precedent set by this case could be used by liberal activists to force Trump off of the ballot in key states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Arizona. 

CREW’s legal theory is wrong for several reasons. For starters, it’s not clear that section 3 of the 14th Amendment even applies to the president. As Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review, this section “refers to electors of the president and vice president, not the president and vice president themselves. Plainly, if it had been the purpose of the amendment’s framers to include the president and vice president, they’d have said so — they wouldn’t have left it at electors.”

Furthermore, if it did apply to presidents, President Trump has not been federally criminally convicted of, let alone charged for, insurrection, so he couldn’t be disqualified for committing the offense. The controlling 1869 case law is clear: if Democrats want to disqualify their political opponent from holding office under the post-Civil War 14th Amendment’s Disqualification Clause, a federal prosecutor must win a criminal conviction, with evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and a unanimous federal jury, under the federal criminal insurrection statute Congress passed in 1870 to give the 14th Amendment’s Disqualification Clause its effect. Fiats by partisan state election officials or judges, like newly appointed Democrat Denver District Judge Sarah Wallace, simply don’t constitutionally cut it.

Former federal appellate judge on the Denver-based 10th Circuit and current Stanford Law professor Michael McConnell, who is no fan of Donald Trump, wrote earlier this year:

“It is significant that the Department of Justice has prosecuted hundreds of persons for their involvement in the January 6 incursion at the Capitol, but has not charged anyone, including Trump, with insurrection under this or any other statute. It is not obvious that partisan officials in state governments, without specific authorization or checks and balances, should apply broad and uncertain definitions to decide who can run for office in a republic, when responsible officials with clear statutory and constitutional authority have not done so.”

Despite all this, CREW has found their biased, freshly appointed Democrat Denver District judge who can ignore the U.S. Constitution, the controlling federal criminal statute, the controlling case law, and sound legal reasoning and simply rule in their favor in order to punish their shared political enemy. Wallace has made several donations to Democrats over the years, but there is one donation in particular that puts her impartiality into question. Wallace gave $100 last year — two months after the Democrat Colorado governor named her as a state trial judge but before she assumed office — to a group called the Colorado Turnout Project, which says it was created in response to Jan. 6.

It’s not the amount that matters so much as it is a clear indication she supports their goals. Their stated mission is to stop “violent insurrectionists” by voting out “pariahs like Representative [Lauren] Boebert,” and, one can imagine, stopping Trump from even coming close to the presidency in 2024 by any means necessary, including this lawfare. 

The Jan. 6 riot is at the heart of this lawsuit. CREW is citing the Jan. 6 report, and their first witness was a Capitol Police officer who also testified during the Jan. 6 committee hearings. This donation means that Wallace more than likely agrees with the leftist narrative that is at the core of this case. Yet, she won’t recuse. 

“I do not dispute that on [Oct. 15, 2022], prior to taking the bench, I apparently made a $100 contribution to the Colorado Turnout Project. That being said, prior to yesterday, I was not cognizant of this organization or its mission,” Judge Wallace said from the bench. “I can assure all of the litigants that prior to the start of this litigation and to this day, I have formed no opinion whether the events of Jan. 6 constituted an insurrection.”

That’s hard to believe, and it’s also not the standard for recusal. Wallace is subjectively saying she won’t be biased, but the public objectively will think she is biased. Wallace should have recused herself. It will already be damaging if a judge forces a leading presidential candidate off of the ballot. It will be even more damaging if the public thinks it’s a politically motivated decision. This is a clear reversible error, on this recusal issue alone.

Unfortunately, Republicans stopped winning statewide elections in Colorado after the state legalized weed, got invaded by New Yorkers and Californians, and went to all-mail ballots — so the Colorado Supreme Court is stacked with leftists. The Supreme Court of the United States, with their lifetime tenure and pay protection, may have to put on their big-boy pants, take a Trump case, and do their jobs by correcting this unconstitutional, anti-Democratic, and Republic-ending lawfare by Democrat operatives, attorneys, and judges.


Mike Davis is the founder and president of both the Article III Project (A3P), which defends constitutionalist judges, and Unsilenced Majority, an organization dedicated to opposing cancel culture and fighting back against the woke mob and their enablers. As the former chief counsel for nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, he served as the staff leader for Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024; cheating; elections; lawfare; tampering; trump
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To: SeekAndFind

We certainly don’t want this to be successful in ANY states.

But the ONLY states where they have even a remote chance for this tactic to be successful are states Trump would lose anyway. So it should have no impact in 2024.


21 posted on 11/03/2023 11:55:30 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: OHPatriot
It was worse....they were citing VANNITY FAIR as their "evidence" of an insurrection.
22 posted on 11/03/2023 12:01:34 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: SamAdams76

Absolutely the same thing I did. They send me fundraising emails, letters, I ignore them all now. They absolutely disgust me.

The entire time Trump was in office putting up with that Russia collusion hoax, and the constant slander, libel, defamation against him and his family and I can’t think of one Republican that stood up to help him.

Remember when he first took office in 2017, Republicans had both houses and the White house and they let Democrats stomp all over him with that hoax, it was absolutely disgusting, same with the fake impeachments and now the fake indictments.

They are the cowards of all cowards and I blame THEM more than Democrats for why things are going to hell.

The USA is a two party system where each party is suppose to keep the other in check so it doesn’t go off the rails. Well that’s exactly what happened, the Democrats do whatever they want no matter how insane it is and Republicans do nothing about it.

And don’t get me started on the backstabbers like Romney, Christie, Liz Cheney even GW Bush. It’s shocking how they help people who I personally consider domestic enemies of the country.


23 posted on 11/03/2023 12:36:24 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: SeekAndFind

they will not lose at the ballot box, because as we have seen recently in Connecticut, controlled by Democrats, legal votes are NOT the only votes counted.


24 posted on 11/03/2023 1:17:58 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

The repubs have been silent on the stolen elections.
But the dims have on their side:
The courts, media, law enforcement, government agencies, USPS and the IRS.


25 posted on 11/03/2023 1:22:14 PM PDT by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: Alas Babylon!

“Thank God my state doesn’t have party registration.
The only thing is you have to ask for a ballot of one or the other party in the primary,”

My state is the same way. We even have two persons standing behind the voting computer, in case you have a question. Of course we are so small they already know who you are voting for. Thank God for small towns.


26 posted on 11/03/2023 2:05:48 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: ohioman

George Washington Gordon (October 5, 1836 – August 9, 1911) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he practiced law in Pulaski, Tennessee, where the Ku Klux Klan was formed. He became one of the Klan's first members. In 1867, Gordon became the Klan's first Grand Dragon for the Realm of Tennessee, and wrote its “Precept,” a book describing its organization, purpose, and principles. He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 10th congressional district of Tennessee, from 1907-1911!

Confederate General, formed the KKK with Nathan Bedford Forrest, and served in Congress. Guess what party? He was a democrat.

27 posted on 11/03/2023 2:55:08 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Bshaw; Pajamajan

RE: Clearly I consider the existence of George Soros a danger to the world, But I regard it as a purely temporary phenomenon that will disappear in 2025 or even sooner.

George might be gone, but his money and like-minded children still exist.


28 posted on 11/03/2023 3:43:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

We have some new Republican leaders with both brains and balls doing the dirty research needed to cripple the Dems before the election next year.

Support them and hope that McConnell is replaced by someone who is not a coward and possible crook.

Fight guerrilla style till the enemy either bleeds to death or is so crippled up by investigations that they look like a human dartboard in a Texas bar on a Friday night.


29 posted on 11/04/2023 1:41:26 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve had it with leftists.


30 posted on 11/04/2023 2:30:43 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: lowbridge

There was an insurrection in 2020, aka the George Floyd rioting. It was very successful. January 6th was a riot.


31 posted on 11/04/2023 2:33:17 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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