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.
Optimistic. ACB and CJ Roberts are compromised LOCKS to vote as their Deep State Masters dictate to them. Trump loses 5-4.
That’s still faster than Georgia trying to find/create biden votes was last general election...
Kagan is less of an ideologue than the other two. Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson are incompetent, partisan hacks. They could care less about precedents and future implications. They want to get Trump.
Not a chance Trump will lose. Not even close.
Appreciate your response!
So you’re saying the plan to burn the Reichstag?
So you won’t support the best, most effective conservative leader in America because he ran for the nomination this year?
The Republican Party could also put a slate of nominally “unpledged” electors on the ballot, with the clear but unstated understanding that they’d vote for Trump.
It's a distinct possibility IMHO. After all they're pretty close to burning the whole country to the ground, or rather the middle class.
History does not actually repeat but it does rhyme.
I will not be supporting Ron, and if he was the best he would have won the
nomination. The way he went after Trump damaged my ability to trust him
So I will not be supporting him.
Went after Trump? His biggest problem was that he didn’t. He let Trump go scorched earth on him with smears and irrelevancies. He got told by his incompetent consultants not to get tough with Trump.
He’s the single most effective conservaitve leader in America. He’s a man who stands on his principles. The most conservative leader we’ve had since Reagan.
You’re not the only one that sees it that way. I don’t see
Ron that way at all. This time around he had zero gravitas.
It is critical that whoever we loft and elect to office this
year, be respected/feared around the planet. That’s how
you avoid wars. We’re going to need to play that card due
to what Biden will leave to us.
You know that Ron used Democrat talking points to gain
ground on Trump. It didn’t work.
It’s rather pointless to write more, because you will always
see Ron like you do. I will see him like I do.
If Ron had a Democrat legislature, he would have not been
able to get anything done in Florida. He was gifted much
of the Conservative talking points he has, because his
legislature was willing to do things even without him.
Do you think he’ll have much help in the swamp? LOL, he
won’t have a prayer in that environment.
Take care. We agree on what needs to be done. Best
wishes...
Not sure I understood that too well, but we do need the light
of day to get things squared away, if I catch your drift.
What “Democrat talking points”?
He’s been the leader, not the Legislature, and he was a Member of Congress, so he knows how to handle the Swamp (which Trump showed he didn’t in his first term.)
Honestly, I don’t remember now. He did it a number of times.
I’m left with my impressing, but I can’t debate it any longer.
Yeah and that’s why he only got half the wall done, even
with his own party and the other Leftists against him.
Come on guy, you know better than that.
I remind folks to go look at the list of his accomplishments
at the White House. It’s impressive.
He has not been the total leader there. He has a legislature
and they do good things too.
Judging by what we saw in the Nevada primary tonight, maybe trying to keep Trump off the ballot isn’t the best strategy.
Sunshine as in Sunshine LSD. It wasn’t a very good pun, still needs work.
Your interpretation carries it one step further, light showing the current delusions for what they are.
Well played!
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