Posted on 02/05/2024 9:09:17 PM PST by TBP
In all states except Pennsylvania, a presidential nominee of a qualified party need not file any documents himself or herself to get on the November ballot. Instead, presidential nominees of qualified parties get on the general election ballot automatically. The state party officers send the names of that party’s presidential elector candidates to the state elections office, and the party’s certification also notifies the state of whom the electors are pledged to.
Challenges to former President Donald Trump this year, and last year, have been challenges to his appearance on presidential primary ballots. Generally, when a candidate must file some document, a state has a procedure for a voter to challenge that document based on the candidate’s eligibility. But there are no parallel laws by which a voter can challenge the certification document of a qualified party that names the elector candidates and reveals whom they are pledged to. Therefore, just because there is a state procedure to challenge someone’s appearance on a presidential primary ballot, it doesn’t follow that there is a procedure to challenge that same person’s general election ballot listing.
If the U.S. Supreme Court decides that the Colorado Supreme Court was correct to keep Trump off the March presidential primary ballot, based on Colorado state law on how primary candidates can be challenged, it doesn’t even follow that Trump (assuming he is the Republican nominee) can be kept off the November ballot in Colorado.
Of course, state legislatures could quickly pass bills that explicitly say a qualified party cannot submit any presidential elector candidates who say they are pledged to an ineligible presidential candidate. There is such a bill pending in the California legislature. Here is the text of SB 929, sponsored by State Senator David Min (D-Irvine).
There is also a Hawaii bill, SB 2392, by Senator Karl Rhoads (D-Honolulu). It has a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 6.
Some folks are trying to make a very big deal about him being
judged guilty of defamation and abuse (whatever the actual
charge was), but I don’t see how that woman can be seen as
credible. The whole case seem totally contrived, and the
judge and jury would seem to have to have been experiencing
an out of mind experience, to convict.
True powers that be (not on our side) have started to realize this. That’s why I expect a planned Black Swan event (war, disease, terrorist attack, other disaster, etc.) before November so elections are not allowed. Of course the left will plan and execute this - thinking they are immune - and will blame Trump and his supporters including most of us for it.
If yeah know how to read what’s going on in the MSM (except Fox - yeah they got waffly for a bit but are pretty good now), the groundwork is being set down. It’s not even hard to see.
And how could he possibly lose? If the supreme’s rule against Trump then it will clearly show they value the deep state, NOT the Constitution... Then all bets are off. I wonder if they’ve pondered that.
Trump will be on the ballot and win easily.
Here are the results for the next three Presidential elections.
2024 Trump win easily.
2028 DeSantis in a blowout
2032 DeSantis with a solid win against a Fetterman democrat.
No way SCOTUS will allow states to keep Trump off the ballot. It should be a 9-0 decision.
Ron is not going to get my support.
He totally screwed the pooch this year.
I’ll support Trump’s V.P. if they are sound.
If they somehow rule against Trump, then Biden gets kicked off the ballot in pretty much every state between the Rockies and the Appalachians (except for Illinois, Colorado and New Mexico), because Biden is the real insurrectionist and traitor.
Hell bent on keeping this careening hell train on the tracks until it hits the wall
It seems to me that some state, Texas, for instance, should pass a state law that keeps Biden off the general election state ballot for his treasonous act of supporting the border invasion. We would see then of the Supreme court would keep Trump off some ballots, while keeping Biden on others for essentially the same reason: crimes for which neither was convicted.
I hope so. ROBERTS, COMEY-BARRETT AND KAVANAUGH
ARE UNRELIABKE
Nor will it stop any voter from writing him (or anyone else) in when they vote.
A day without Sunshine is a day without hallucinations...
What does it matter if American cities are reduced to glass and ashes, as long as we can lord over the ashes? </democrat>
It should be.
7-2 most likely.
THAT would take WEEKS TO COUNT !!!!!!
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