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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No standing.
Loser!
Loser!
Loser!
This will fail. Maybe just maybe they could get away with this in a rat state for the primary but not the general. The rules are pretty clear for the general. Trump was acquitted of the insurrection charge during impeachment so no on the 14th.
Actually it was part of the impeachment and he was acquitted that is why little rat smith was not able to include it
You wish. You freaks think this will help desanctomonious, but it won’t. He could never even be elected dog catcher now, even if Trump quit.
I’m in total agreement-give notice to the liberals-and newbies who came here in the last year or two from another state-to pack and leave now if they are scared to be independent, close the border and all 4 state lines, start tossing out all mojados-and temporarily move the capitol from Austin to someplace nicer-like Amarillo, Midland, etc until the druggies, homeless, etc can be removed from the streets, everything washed down, sprayed with industrial disinfectant and exposed to sunshine and fresh air for a month or two...
These idiot Leftists aren’t even smart enough to know that Trump has not even been charged with insurrection in any of the indictments let alone convicted of it — other than in their slimy puny Leftist minds.
The stupid SCREW voters don’t have any “standing”. Our side needs to come up with a group to sue the asses off the FASCIST SCREWS.
It is abundantly clear who the Deep State/Marxist/globalist/leftists fear the most.
Colorado ping.
I have no idea what this means?
Colorado like California just another twisted stoner state it’s expected.
Hasn’t even been charged with it!🤔
The Left found something they like about the Constitution.
Agree, but again, that code’s intent was related to the Civil War. Context would take all of these challenges off the table, which is why so far 2 cases have been tossed, one could have been appealed except for money.
No, they can try, but the courts are not supporting this idea.
Why would Congress remove a penalty limit in 1994 on a dead Civil War era statute?
-PJ
Is this a joke? The entire Executive branch is run by CRIMINALS, who have the nation's entire law enforcement apparatus (FBI, DOJ, etc) protecting them from any consequences, and judges willing to make the most radical interpretations of the Patriot Act to call nearly any act of resistance "terrorism."
Anyone who is not demoralized is a fool. The question is: what are we going to do about it?
Kevin McCarthy has not said one word about the disgraceful sentencing of the Proud Boys or J6 grandmas and assorted innocent Janes and Joes who merely tresspassed that day. Nor has he or any major GOP official said a word against the Fulton County cabal trying to destroy Trump. After lying about giving all the footage to Tucker, McCarthy reneged after Tucker was (conveniently, 2 days later) fired. And despite reports that all the records of the J6 committee were "destroyed," he has not launched a single hearing to investigate it.
He is 100% complicit with the criminal Democrats. Even GOP governors like Kemp ridicule the very idea of standing up to racist Soros puppets like Big Fani.
And not a single Republican leader has criticized the Kafkaesque "judge and jury" in NYC that convicted Trump of "sexual assault" against a woman who has zero witnesses, zero evidence, and made up her lies from a literal script from "Law and Order."
YES, I am "demoralized." But again...what to do? Nothing is being done to stand up to it by the Stupid Party.
Will we, 10 years from today, find ourselves reciting some version of Solzhenitsyn's lament...
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If… if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
WAKE UP AMERICA! WAKE UP REPUBLICANS! Or it will all come to an end, and much sooner than you can imagine.
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