Not looking too good there Judge.
Posted on 01/30/2024 11:46:47 AM PST by Baladas
Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday arguing that former President Trump is disqualified to run for public office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Luttig, a longtime conservative jurist on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, argued the Supreme Court justices, when they hear arguments next month in the case involving the Colorado Supreme Court decision to bar Trump from the ballot, should take a “textualist” approach to interpreting the constitution.
“The ‘textualist’s touchstone’ is to give every constitutional provision its ‘fair meaning,’” Luttig wrote. “A narrow construction to promote judicial restraint is just as bad as an ‘unreasonably … enlarged’ construction. Scalia and Garner approvingly quote Justice Story that it is forbidden to narrowly construe a constitutional provision ‘as if it were subversive of the great interests of society, or derogated from the inherent sovereignty of the people.’”
“Every provision of the Constitution is part of ‘the supreme Law of the Land,’” he continued, “not the inferior law of the land.”
The friend-of-the-court brief, which included other prominent names such as conservative lawyer George Conway, sought to refute several key arguments from Trump and his allies. Luttig has been among the most high-profile promoters of the case to bar Trump under the 14th amendment, as Colorado and Maine have moved to do.
Having “incited, and therefore engaged in, an armed insurrection” against the Constitution, Luttig wrote, Trump “disqualified himself under Section 3.”
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Not looking too good there Judge.
By being accused of something he didn’t do at something that didn’t happen.
The ex-judge is getting paid.
From the Ford/Bush wing of the Party.
Preaching to the choir isn’t getting them anywhere fast.
People in the country made up their minds about this BS years ago, and all the caterwauling and wailing makes no difference.
The more they trot out this laughable gibberish, the more it allows those who weren’t paying close attention previously to see the government shenanigans.
Spot on.
He’s going to need some heavy duty rope. 1,500 pound test minimum.
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“... conservative lawyer George Conway..”
Whoa, let’s stop right there.
Two fatties pissing in the wind...
You have to wonder how many plain brown envelopes have greased this one's palms in the back room?
Doesn’t someone have to be convicted of a crime, before he can be punished for it? In the case of Trump, the fact that he hasn’t been charged with it, suggest it is widely considered that they couldn’t come close to convicting him. Because some prosecutor out there would be lauded for trying.
One more hamburger and he is going to croak.
Hey Judge A— Hole President Trump has never been indicted or tried for insurrection let alone found guilty of it moron.
To paraphrase G.W. McLintock -
Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig, is a CULL. Do you know what a CULL is people? A CULL is a specimen that is so WORTHLESS that you have to cut him out of the herd. Now if all the people in the world were put in one herd, J. Michael Luttig is the one I would throw a rope at. Thanks for the wisdom G.W.
Bzzzzt. Wrong on premise one. Luttig hasn't been paying attention.
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.We’ve seen that these ideologues would try to use bribery on non-ideologues (as with what happened to Kari Lake recently), but true fellow travelers would not need to be bribed.
— Goal #15 of the 45 communist goals for the USA
There. Was. No. Insurrection. On. January. Sixth. 2021. Not. Even. Close.
Furthermore, NONE of the people already detained and put on trial was ever CHARGED with insurrection. Not one.
Lawfare is an ugly tool. Especially when the persons applying it have very carefully ignored the letter of the law as it is written.
“... conservative lawyer George Conway..”
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I almost fell off my chair, belly laugh @ that one!!
Furthermore, what words did Trump speak at his rally that day that constitute incitement to insurrection and where is the evidence that anybody who did anything illegal that day heard those words before the committed their illegal act?
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What does it profit a fat backstabbing paid liar to gain 30 pieces of silver and lose their soul, reputation, honor, dignity and their country?
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