Posted on 12/24/2023 12:24:03 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called Colorado’s ruling disqualifying former President Trump from the state’s primary ballot “chilling” and a “political decision” rather than a ruling based in law.
Asked on ABC News’s “This Week” where he stands on the ruling, Graham said, “It’s not a rule of law based ruling, it is a political decision.”
In a 4-3 bombshell ruling last week, the Colorado Supreme Court determined that Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s ballot under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which bars people who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” after taking the oath of office from holding certain positions.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
"Graham says Colorado’s Trump ballot ruling is ‘chilling’"
Given the zero tolerance "hair triggers" of Section 2 of the 14th Amendment, that section a penalty for ballot box fraud, it can be argued that Colorado Supreme Court has violated Section 2 imo.
"is denied to any"
"or in any way abridged,"
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged [emphases added], except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Section 2: Apportionment of Representatives]
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
True enough.The only chilling Lindsay should be doing is on his corruption pay-off retirement hacienda with some of the sex-trafficked boys he’s helped the cartels with - getting out of the way of a person who might actually run an America First agenda rather than just running his mouth.
Look at the confirmation votes for these judges. I will lay odds that he voted to approve them all even with healthy objections.
They are state judges, the Senate has nothing to do with them.
He's busy trying to stop NY from forcing Chick-fil-As at Thruway Service Centers to open on Sundays.
Colorado Supreme Court is a joke!
Using a bad ruling as a precedent for other judicial activism is what is chilling. The legal branch is not entitled to, nor is it supposed to, rewrite law using an interpretation that was never in the original language.
For instance, WHY was “Roe v. Wade” accepted as “law of the land” for so many years, when it obviously was not supported by ANY interpretation of the Constitution? The individual states could interpret their own opinion on all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, and nowhere in the Constitution is this power ever delegated.
I checked. THESE 4 JUDGES RULED Against Trump in the DC CASE
Here are Chutkans nomination vote:
06/04/2014 - Confirmed by the Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 95 - 0.
LYNDSEY WAS A YEA
Here are the results for DC Cirucit Chief Judge Srinivasan
05/23/2013 - Confirmed by the Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 97 - 0.
LYNDSEY WAS A YEA
Here is Judge Kastas:
11/28/2017 - Confirmed by the Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 48
LYNDSEY VOTED YEA AGAIN.
Judge Rogers is a senior circuit Judge nominated in 1992-1993.
Lyndsey wasn’t in the Senate yet.
The judges are federal judges. DC CIRCUIT. Read the opinion from December 1, 2023.
My apologies. I was just reading the DC opinion and seeing him complain made me think of what he could do.
The Court overstepped its bounds. Article 5 of the fourteenth Amendment specifies authority to the Congress. What a bunch of fools the Court is!
They want to pin insurrection on Trump, out of nothing but their hate and fear of the man.
On the other hand, Biden has accepted millions from other governments. Biden has set this nation up for terrorism, and warned we are in danger.. Be careful, and remember you cannot carry a gun.
Biden orchestrated an invasion of millions pouring into our land.. Giving them $5,000 and a cell phone, while kicking veterans out of their living space for the invaders.
All that is at least, treason.. The radical left are so out of hand, we are in danger.. El Paso residents are afraid to go out their door.. But they go after Trump..
The government of the United States has lost all reasoning and confuse right and wrong.. Justice has been removed and communism has become their way of control.
I’ve lived long enough to see this become the rule and they are telling all others to butt out..
I’m sure there are plenty just as bad, but they’re in solid blue States.
and nothing was done
This guy is szicho.
He should be happy about this, as much as he hates Trump.
No worries! Trump has so many jurisdictions coming after him at this point, it’s hard to keep track. I’m not even a diehard Trump guy anymore at this point (although I will absolutely vote for him for a third time) but what they are doing to him is absolutely disgraceful and an embarrassment to this country. Trump was a good president who implemented policies that helped all Americans. Could he get in his own way? Sure. Does he still now? Sure. Nonetheless, he was a selfless individual as president and the unadulterated hatred for him by some is something I’ll never understand outside of general liberal mental illness.
Your compromising with Demonrats all these years has allowed this to happen. Grow a pair and stop compromising with EVIL.
There is no evidence ten states assassinated Lincoln. The assassin was one man, John Wilkes Booth.
There is strong evidence Booth was part of a conspiracy but there is no evidence any state government was involved. The ten ex Confederate states were at the time under military occupation and subservient to the U.S. military. Most members of the Confederate government were in jail or hiding far from Washington, DC.
The investigation of the alleged conspiracy to assassinate was a highly politicized effort to produce a narrative. Not unlike the Mueller investigation and the January 6 committee. Some modern researchers have suggested the assassination may have been orchestrated by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton or others in the military who strongly opposed Lincoln’s plans to rebuild the nation without severe punishment for the southern states. Notably 15 people turned down an invitation to join the Lincolns at Fords Theater Including Ulysses S Grant , Speaker of the House Colfax, and Secretary of War Stanton. The absence of the Speaker is particularly interesting since he was third in line of succession and VP Andrew Johnson was a failed target of the conspirators that night. Also the lack of security for the president was appalling given the assassination rumors in the city and the numerous threats against the president. Why wouldn’t Stanton or Grant have dispatched a contingent of troops to guard the President in public knowing there were threats in a city with many disgruntled Confederate sympathizers?
Stanton quickly took control of the government and the investigation of the assassination. In the aftermath of Stanton’s tightly controlled investigation of an alleged conspiracy to kill Lincoln, no one was charged or tried for the crime of conspiracy. Those charged with specific crimes related to the assassination, such as the attempted assassination of VP Johnson, and nearly successful attack on Secretary of State Seward, were tried in military tribunals, not the court system and were quickly hanged or imprisoned. Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865. The hangings occurred on July 7, less than four months after Lincoln’s death. Those charged received no due process in the federal court system, and no right to appeal. The speed of “justice”, quick execution of the defendants, and tight control of the military investigation by Edwin Stanton ensured the possibility of a broader conspiracy involving members of the U.S. government would not be investigated.
To learn more, read the paper at the link below and the books referenced in the paper.
https://reasonlincoln.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/How-Stanton-Covered-Up-Lincolns-Murder-Plot.pdf
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