Posted on 08/27/2023 8:48:38 AM PDT by bitt
A challenge has been filed in a federal court seeking a declaratory relief on the eligibility of President Donald Trump to run in the 2024 Presidential Election.
The petitioner cites Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which disqualifies individuals involved in “insurrections” against the government from running for federal office.
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by Lawrence A. Caplan, alleges that Trump is constitutionally prohibited from running for president again due to his alleged involvement in the January 6 “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol.
Caplan claimed he has participated in the last twelve presidential elections and is a legal resident of Florida. He is also a member of various state bars and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, asserting that this gives him standing in the matter.
Below is a transcript from the complaint:
"The facts of this case are undeniably simple. Donald J. Trump served a the 45th President of the United States having won the election in 2016 and was inaugurated on January 20, 2017. He served for four years until he lost the 2020 Presidential Election to Joseph R. Biden, Jr. who took office on January 20, 2021. President Trump chose not to appear at the inauguration of his successor. Having left for his estate in South Florida while the ceremony was taking place…
On January 6, 2021, after giving a speech to a throng on the Ellipse near the Capitol, President Trump exhorted the throng to march to the Capitol and told them that he would be right there with them. After he was finished with his speech, Trump returned to the White House and watched he later events unfold on television. As we are well aware, the throng marched on the Capitol, forced their way into the Capitol building, ransacked the rotunda area, and even made their way into several offices of representatives and senators…
Of note, President Trump had sent out a tweet the day before claiming that “January 6th will be wild”. Trump also later remarked that the insurrectionists who had breached the Capitol were “special” and that “we love you”. He also later remarked that had Vice-President Pence simply done his job and refused to certify the results of the election that everything would have been fine. Not for several hours were the National Guard called in to quell the insurrection as allegedly President Trump refused to do so and had been mesmerized by the events that were taking place on his television at the White House…"
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Disbar this idiot.
We have lead too.
I'm sure the governor of Florida, (what's his name?) will help defend against this lawsuit since it is the voters of Florida who are being denied the right to vote against a legally qualified candidate.
Right??
A moron is on the loose in Florida...wait a minute, is this THE Florida man?
No conviction, no charges even, and no sense.
Smith may still indict for insurrection.
This clown attorney, who apparently has nothing better to do, has no standing. This is a perfect case for loser pays.
The real insurrectionist are inhabiting the White House and the Capitol building.
Too bad we can’t keep them off the ballot.
You try to act like everything is normal when it’s not. Deluded.
No standing.
He does not have standing for the simple reason that he has not suffered a harm that is distinct from the public at large.
Falls under the old wait and see.
“What are you proposing?”
Are you fishing for self incrimination?
I am just stating that until we address our own denial of the reality we are just spinning our wheels and are not going to get anywhere. Until then we are just wasting valuable time, effort, and false hope into a failed system. In fact, because of this denial alone we are now in the situation we are in. It is too late, truly productive measures should have been exercised many times over the last ten years.
But because of denial we trusted a system that was already broken beyond repair. And we are still trusting a system that is broken beyond repair.
Many visionaries here predicted this and tried like hell to share true effective and productive efforts that would have prevented it yet no one listened. “Tin foil hat conspiracy theory” and “Never happen here” and “we will get them next time” were the perpetual replies. Well, they were not theories, it did happen here, and now there will never be a next time.
And we have not learned one thing from it and are still in denial. At some point we need to admit the system is broken and never going to work again. Then and only then can we understand the full scope of what we are up against. We are not going to get any more opportunities, the window of opportunity is now gone.
We are not going to get any more opportunities, the window of opportunity is now gone.
History has proven you both right and wrong. What was the difference?
Go do a small thing to change the tide of battle.
I do, however, recognize that GP is a sensationalist website driven by clickbait headlines.
I wrote them off as a waste of time in the days leading up to the 2016 election when they were posting that ludicrous “BREAKING NEWS” story about an arrest warrant issued for Hillary Clinton related to the Anthony Weiner laptop fiasco.
I said the same thing to my wife this morning.
“Including lead. I’m not kidding. They will never let Trump step foot in the White House as POTUS again.“
I said the same thing to my wife this morning.
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