Posted on 12/25/2023 9:24:46 AM PST by Signalman
If it wasn’t obvious before now that the left will do anything to stop Donald Trump from winning a second term in the White House, the events of the last few days should leave no doubt in any American’s mind. Democrats, including President Biden, are prepared not only to rig the 2024 election in broad daylight but also to twist the U.S. Constitution and undermine the republic so they can hold on to power.
As most everyone knows by now, an infamous 4-3 majority of the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that voters in their state will not be allowed to cast a ballot for Trump in next year’s presidential election. The court’s outlandish claim is that Trump is ineligible to appear on the ballot because Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says candidates who have “engaged in insurrection” are prohibited from holding public office.
According to the court, which is dominated by left-wing ideologues appointed by Democrat governors (all the judges on the Colorado Supreme Court are Democrats, some are just more radical than others), Trump meets this definition because he “incited” a riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Never mind that Trump has yet to be convicted of a crime associated with Jan. 6 (or any crime for that matter) or that the 14th Amendment doesn’t include the president or vice president in a list of offices to which its Section 3 provision applies. For the leftists on the Colorado Supreme Court, it’s enough to declare Trump an insurrectionist and viola! He’s off the ballot — all in the name of “defending democracy.”
David French called it a “bold, courageous decision,” but setting aside the constitutional/legal debate, consider what it means practically. About 1.4 million Coloradans voted for Trump in 2020. All those voters, if they want to vote for Trump again this time, have been disenfranchised by the court. That’s bad enough, but the left’s strategy here is larger than just one state. Before the ink was dry on the Colorado ruling, California Democrats leapt into action. The lieutenant governor, Eleni Kounalakis, sent a letter to Secretary of State Shirley Weber asking her to “explore every legal option to remove former President Donald Trump from California’s 2024 presidential primary ballot.”
Meanwhile, Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting Trump for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 riot, this week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and rule on the case before the lower court issues a ruling. As Byron York noted, Smith’s frantic brief doesn’t state the obvious: “He’s rushing to try Trump so Trump can be convicted and jailed before the election.”
Plenty of smart people have pointed out the glaring problems with the Colorado Supreme Court’s interpretation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Namely, it stipulates Congress must establish a procedure for barring someone from office for engaging in insurrection, which Congress did, twice, first in 1870 and again in 1948. In the latter instance, Congress created a criminal insurrection law, 18 U.S.C. § 2383, which is the enforcement mechanism for Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The key point here is that Trump has not been charged or convicted under that statute, which means the U.S. Supreme Court will almost certainly overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s garbage ruling.
But set aside the legal fight because it doesn’t matter to the left. For Biden and the Democrats, this isn’t really a question of what the Constitution does or doesn’t say. This is a question of power and how far they will go to keep it. From the politicized court ruling in Colorado to the four criminal indictments against Trump amounting to 91 felony charges to Biden’s statement last November that he’ll use the Constitution to ensure that Trump “will not take power” and will not “become the next president,” what we have amounts to an open conspiracy to rig the 2024 election by preventing voters from casting a ballot for the likely GOP nominee.
It’s not too much to call this a coup or a color revolution. If Democrats get away with this, we won’t be able to say we have a republic anymore for the simple reason that we won’t have anything like free and fair elections. Democracy in America will be reduced to something like Democracy in Iran or Russia, where only regime-approved candidates are allowed to appear on the ballot.
And don’t think this will end if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Colorado decision. The Democrats will see it as a mere setback, not a defeat — and certainly not a deterrent. When they say, as they have been quite often lately, that Trump will never leave office if he wins next November, or that 2024 will be our last election ever if Trump prevails, they’re really talking about themselves. What they say Trump will do if he becomes president again is what they’re doing right now, before a watching world.
Also to twist the U.S. Constitution and undermine the republic so they can hold on to power.
It covers it all for the Bolsheviks.
Ain’t gonna happen. The law was repealed in several legal revisions over the decades. In it’s entirety. It affects no one any longer. Period.
It’s an insurrection in advance of what would orherwise be their conclusion.
they already did that in 2020...with little repercussion
Use this word incessantly. It gets traction on the brain dead. A few movies in the 70's framed them pretty accurately.
Then they doubled down in Arizona in ‘22
When the brain dead familiarize themselves with the aforementioned term, might wanna try to bring aboot the whole conspiracy set the train in motion in the first place, vis a vis Karl-Marx @ Daniel DeLeon.
Consider if the Democrats succeed in keepingTrump off the ballot in one or more states, having him jailed before the next election and again fraudulently put senile Joe back in the White House, how will large numbers of Americans react? In 2020 the media browbeat the public into more or less accepting the election, denigrated anyone who legitimately questioned the election results and culminated with the January 6 hearings that painted a likely deep state encouraged “invasion” of the Capitol as an “insurrection” on par with the storming of the Bastille. How will people react when in 2024 the people are sick of Biden, hate the direction the country is going and are economically suffering and the election is blatantly stolen? I could see a revolution similar to the French Revolution with all its excesses.
God save our Republic.
So what about the Republicans trying to keep Biden off the Arizonia, Pa and Georgia ballots? Same action. Same coup.
Which is stupid because the Republicans doing it, gives more credibility to banning Trump in Colorado. Wrong is wrong.
Yep, AZ in 22 was absolutely brazen and they totally got away with it. The Governor, AG and SOS all stolen, now they weld the door shut.
It’s not a coup, it’s an insurrection against the people of the United States of America and the bastards are daring us to take up arms and fight back so they can seal the deal, taking away our rights.
Do nothing and we lose our God given right to FEEEDOM.
Take up arms, as our Constitution guarantees us the right to do to fight back against tyranny and the bloody bastards use that as their excuse to implement their Communist dictatorship.
I would rather die on my feet fighting for my and our freedoms than live just a bit longer on my knees without them.
The time for choosing draws near.
Choose wisely, and Merry Christmas my fellow deplorables. This may well be out last.
The idea if you do it, we will do it back, so don't do it.
Bolsheviks just a word of many to define the tyranny of the left wish to inflict for full control over everything.
Communists Marxism socialism all the same but the style never changes only the names do.
Trump advised the crowd on January 6 to patriotically and peacefully make their voices heard in DC. That’s a pretty good paraphrase of the First Amendment. If encouraging exercise of First Amendment rights is inciting insurrection, we are all in jeopardy.
We need to ban Biden from the Ballot in Red States...
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Plenty of smart people have pointed out the glaring problems with the Colorado Supreme Court’s interpretation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Namely, it stipulates Congress must establish a procedure for barring someone from office for engaging in insurrection, which Congress did, twice, first in 1870 and again in 1948. In the latter instance, Congress created a criminal insurrection law, 18 U.S.C. § 2383, which is the enforcement mechanism for Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The key point here is that Trump has not been charged or convicted under that statute, which means the U.S. Supreme Court will almost certainly overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s garbage ruling.
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So, none of the lawsuits against President Trump cited 18 U.S.C. § 2383.
The Dems are grasping at straws...
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