Posted on 11/26/2023 12:14:46 PM PST by chief lee runamok
A group trying to block former President Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot in all 50 states ramped up pressure on Oregon Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade during Thanksgiving week.
Free Speech for People first contacted Griffin-Valade in July, less than two weeks into her term. Its latest letter asks Griffin-Valade to respond and indicate whether she’ll issue a temporary rule declaring Trump ineligible to appear on ballots in Oregon by Dec. 1.
“Your oath to support the Constitution, and the weighty responsibility entrusted to you by Oregon voters as Secretary of State, impel you to exclude Mr. Trump’s name from the list of ‘qualified candidates’ in the presidential primary,” the group wrote.
A spokeswoman for Griffin-Valade said she received the request and is reviewing it, and has nothing more to share at this time.
The advocacy group’s campaign rests on a rarely used section of the Fourteenth Amendment intended to prevent former Confederates from holding federal office after the Civil War. The amendment prohibits anyone who previously took an oath to support the U.S. Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof” from holding any federal office.
Even if they could make a constitutional case for that — which they can’t — it would have no effect.
In the primary, the legal parties-in-interest are the delegates. You’re not really voting for Trump or DeSantis or whomever; you’re voting for the Trump delegate slate or the DeSantis delegate slate or whichever candidate’s delegate slate.
Similarly, in the general election, you don’t vote for the presidential nominee. You vote for his electors.
Even if they could get a ruling that Trump is disqualified under the 14th Amendment (insurrection clause), they cannot disqualify the delegates or electors.
The purpose is to engage in more lawfare to force Trump to spend more resources fighting the nonsense. Our courts have been corrupted and to many AGs and DAs have been bought with ChiCom and Sorros money to undermine the Republic.
Free Speech for People democrats
want to remobyve the people’s right to free speech voting for trump.
Idiots indeed.
Useless indeed.
A shameful chapter in American history. A banana republic frame job and plot to keep the other party’s leader off the ballot.
The Dems and “Democratic Socialists” have to pay for this someday.
Why is this not election interference.
Last sentence in the 14th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Oh.
Case closed.
Exactly.
Red states should erase Biden’s name for treason,bribery,etc.
This is not the last thing they will try, to keep Trump from the office that he deserves once again.
Another retarded Oregon group of sexual deviants.
So this group of tens wants to change the ballot choice for all the rest of us. Isn’t that just special?
Cuz the communists are doing it & the media & the lack-of-Justice system likes it.
This group is just chock-full of Democrat hack consultants, fund raisers and general ne’er-do-wells.
Who’s funding them?
Arabella?
Clearly coordinating with the Democrat machine, and abetted by the media.
The article FAILS to mention that President Trump has not be found guilty in a court of law of the crime (18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or Insurrection). The left just wants to skip the “innocent until proven guilty”, the trial and go straight to the punishment.
“Free Speech for People”
As long as you agree with us.
Exactly. Even more to the point, Trump was acquitted of incitement to insurrection in the grotesquely farcical second impeachment senate trial.
Worse than useless, these idiots give aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
Oregon went third world state a long time ago the left coast is no place to be feral spreads fast.
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