Posted on 09/06/2023 11:16:44 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW), a Washington-based watchdog group, on Wednesday filed a lawsuit on behalf of a handful of voters seeking to bar former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot in Colorado under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment based on his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The suit -- quickly dismissed by Trump's team -- marks one of the first serious challenges to his qualifications as a presidential candidate based on a 14th Amendment argument.
Section 3 states that someone isn't eligible for future office if, while they were previously in office, they took an oath to support the Constitution but then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or [gave] aid or comfort to the enemies thereof," unless they are granted amnesty by a two-thirds vote of Congress.
Supporters of this theory argue this applies to Trump because of his conduct after he lost the 2020 election but sought to reverse the results. Previous such efforts focused on other Republicans have failed, but CREW last year successfully pushed to remove a county official in New Mexico who was convicted of trespassing in connection with the attack on the Capitol.
A Trump campaign spokesman, Steven Cheung, blasted the new suit in a statement to ABC News.
"The people who are pursuing this absurd conspiracy theory and political attack on President Trump are stretching the law beyond recognition," Cheung said, in part, adding, "There is no legal basis for this effort except in the minds of those who are pushing it."
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Most of the attacks on Trump, conservatives, and patriots are funded by Soros and organized by Brock.
I am so glad we have omniscient, god-like people like you around here who can foresee the future and save us the trouble of voting and elections.
I argue that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment does not apply to the Presidency since that office is not specified in the first part of the section and it is not an office UNDER the United States thus not covered by the second part of the section either.
What I think the left will eventually try to do is use Section 3 to disqualify many staunch Trump electors in purple states if Trump wins in those places, in the hopes of getting enough faithless Electors seated to tip the Electoral College in their favor.
It’s time.
#TEXIT
The Demonrats are the enemy of every American man, woman and child.
FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No. This is simply false. Already in two cases, courts have ruled this is unconstitutional (Majorie Taylor Greene in GA, Madison Cawthorne in NC). A third case in NM was successfull only because the congressional candidate was way low on funds and didn’t appeal.
I’ve been over this and over this. The 14th ONLY refers to the Civil War as courts have repeatedly ruled and is clear by the language; it DOES NOT specifically include the President for a reason, as he cannot be guilty of secession against his own country; and because Jeff Davis was NOT recognized as a President; therefore the wording does not include “President.”
Already the DemoKKkrat Hobbit in AZ was told that this was unconstitutional and she couldn’t do it.
This “Watch Dog Group” is just another front for knob-gobbler DAVID BROCK.
I do not believe it is simply that the GOP lack "the will" to stand up to Democrats.
Is it possible, that they are compromised, or accomplices, (in some way), to Democrat criminality, and receiving benefit 💰 from it?
🤔
GOP is there to give you the illusion of choice.
You have no choice.
The GOPee is rife with NeverTrumpers.
They are doomed to be DUmped on the ash heap of history.
Couldn’t they be charged with election interference? Couldn’t 0bama, Biden, Clinton, and others be charged with obstructing the peaceful transfer of power and election interference as well?
Im not so sure.If they squeak it through a lower court expect the Supreme Court to get involved. There was no actual insurrection, so theres that and the fact that such trusted (by leftists) assets , like the FBI, have stated unequivocally that Trump himself had no actual role in the protest that day does have meaning. We can put Trumps speech about protests being peaceful and the GOP needing to be the party law and order on a big screen and play on a loop for the jury...
One by one they will fail.... imho
No. This is simply false. Already in two cases, courts have ruled this is unconstitutional (Majorie Taylor Greene in GA, Madison Cawthorne in NC). A third case in NM was successfull only because the congressional candidate was way low on funds and didn’t appeal.
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Anybody relying on the 14th Amendment to defeat Trump in 2024, is depending on a pretty weak or broken reed.
These articles are for the “walls are closing in” on Trump crowd, in other words it’s “boob bait” for Trump haters.
When the derp state is reduced to using David Brock to try to stop MAGA, you’re gone full retard.
From the Amnesty Act of 1872:
<>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each house concurring therein), that all political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of amendments of the Constitution of the United States are hereby removed from all persons whomsoever, except Senators and Representatives of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judicial, military, and naval service of the United States, heads of departments, and foreign ministers of the United States.<>
This is further proof that Section 3 of the 14A applied to Civil War rebels and no other.
The Act removed all political disabilities except those cited.
Neither President Trump nor any current politicians can be restricted from public office by the 14A.
Also, Section 5 empowers Congress and not the judiciary, states, local dippy prosecutors or no-name lawyers to enforce the 14A.
The problem as I see it (and hasn't been mentioned by others) is that they don't need the 14th amendment; there is also 18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection:
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.Someone first needs to indict someone for insurrection under this federal code, not the 14th amendment.
-PJ
I thought they want to run against Trump lol
Need to get their story straight
Last I read, Trump hadn’t even been charged specifically with insurrection.
Go away.
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