f*** that. the colorado supreme court needs to be indicted for violating civil rights, interfering with federal elections, and insurrection. also, tarring and feathering would be too good for them.
Anything yet from Babe Ruth?
This is a federal election, not a state one.
It seems like they should have an oath. Their pastors should have a talk with them.
The ruling violates Trump’s civil rights, and might well be shown to be seditious conspiracy to subvert the election process.
Kagen , maybe - I can’t see Brown and Sotomayor failing to endorse the Colorado’s Court’s collectivist world view.
When was Trump convicted of insurrection?
When was Trump charged with insurrection?
When was Trump’s trial for insurrection?
They better... And it better be all 9 of ‘em. This country’s about to explode because of these power mad democrats.
I didn’t know that Ty Cobb is still alive....
A 9-0 decision would destroy all the other lawfare non-profits that are attempting to deny Republican voters their choice for President.
However, if the deep state wants to get rid of Trump, this is their ace in the hole. If the Supreme Court upholds the Colorado decision, look for 50 states plus DC to follow this stupidity.(The backlash against this crap would be enormous)
It will make a joke out of our country, by letting democrats deny the Republicans their nominee for President.
Many of us will bail on the Republicans after this election , because they let this happen and are anti Trump enablers. Plus a few of the Republican Presidential candidates want to use this for political advantage without their “fingerprints on the knife.”
I doubt that. THe SCOTUS is filled with losers too. The CO judges should be impeached.
Some excerpts:
Chief Justice Boatright:
III Conclusion
My opinion that this is an inadequate cause of action is dictated by the facts of this case, particularly the absence of a criminal conviction for an insurrection related offense.
The questions presented here simply reach a magnitude of complexity not contemplated by the Colorado General Assembly for its election code enforcement statute. The proceedings below ran counter to the letter and spirit of the statutory timeframe because the Electors claim overwhelmed the process. In the absence of an insurrection-related conviction, I would hold that a request to disqualify a candidate under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is not a proper cause of action under Colorado's election code . Therefore, I would dismiss the claim at issue here. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent.
Justice Samour:
II Conclusion
In the first American Declaration of Rights in 1776, George Mason wrote that no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by the recognition by all citizens that they have rights, and that such rights cannot be enjoyed save in a society where law is respected and due process is observed. Va. Const. art. I, § 15. Some two and a half centuries later, those words still ring true. In 2023,just as in 1776, all, including those people who may have committed horrendous acts, are entitled to procedural due process.
Because I cannot in good conscience join my colleagues in the majority in ruling that Section Three is self-executing and that the expedited procedures in our Election Code afforded President Trump adequate due process of law, I respectfully dissent. Given the current absence of federal legislation to enforce Section Three, and given that President Trump has not been charged pursuant to section 2383, the district court should have granted his September 29 motion to dismiss. It erred in not doing so. I would therefore affirm its judgment on other grounds.
Justice Berkenkotter:
IV. Conclusion
The Electors arguments below and before this court are, to my mind, unavailing. Too much of their position rests on text like federal law and qualified candidate that on closer examination does not appear to mean what they say it means because it is taken out of context. In short, these sections do not show an affirmative grant by the General Assembly to state courts to decide Section Three cases through Colorado's summary election challenge process. Because it too relied on the provisions of part 12 regarding federal law and qualified candidate, the district court's reasoning suffers from the same shortcomings.
The 14th amendment clearly puts the power to decide what an insurrectionist is onto Congress.
The only power the state has is to choose the method of selecting Electors to the Electoral College.
That said, watch the liberals try to twist the Electors into the modern convenience of being rubber stamps for the candidates. The Framers didn't expect the Electors to be sets of predetermined party insiders for each candidate; they expected the states to choose Electors from leading businessmen, scholars, and land owners in the state, and those people would vote for the President.
Federalist #68 (Alexander Hamilton):
It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided. This end will be answered by committing the right of making it, not to any preestablished body, but to men chosen by the people for the special purpose, and at the particular conjuncture.It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.
...The choice of SEVERAL, to form an intermediate body of electors, will be much less apt to convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements, than the choice of ONE who was himself to be the final object of the public wishes. And as the electors, chosen in each State, are to assemble and vote in the State in which they are chosen, this detached and divided situation will expose them much less to heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the people, than if they were all to be convened at one time, in one place.
...They have not made the appointment of the President to depend on any preexisting bodies of men, who might be tampered with beforehand to prostitute their votes; but they have referred it in the first instance to an immediate act of the people of America, to be exerted in the choice of persons for the temporary and sole purpose of making the appointment. And they have excluded from eligibility to this trust, all those who from situation might be suspected of too great devotion to the President in office. No senator, representative, or other person holding a place of trust or profit under the United States, can be of the numbers of the electors. Thus without corrupting the body of the people, the immediate agents in the election will at least enter upon the task free from any sinister bias. Their transient existence, and their detached situation, already taken notice of, afford a satisfactory prospect of their continuing so, to the conclusion of it. The business of corruption, when it is to embrace so considerable a number of men, requires time as well as means. Nor would it be found easy suddenly to embark them, dispersed as they would be over thirteen States, in any combinations founded upon motives, which though they could not properly be denominated corrupt, might yet be of a nature to mislead them from their duty.
Given that the Framers intended for the people to vote for smart, influential non-government people to gather to debate, analyze, investigate, and vote for the President, and that this temporary body cannot be made up of people who hold existing offices in the federal or state governments, any court that tries to interfere with this body by putting restrictions on its deliberations (like who they can vote for), is plainly unconstitutional and must be struck down unamimously.
-PJ
p.s. This part of Federalist #68 teases the natural-born citizen requirement to be president. They expected the members of the Electoral College to discover foreign allegiances and reject their candidacies.
Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one querter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union? But the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention.
Poor Ty Cobb is exhibiting the deleterious effects of playing pepper one too many times.
agree 9-0
if not, republican states will start throwing Biden off ballot immediately for Biden and all the Democrats supporting the real insurrection of the BLM riots.
Overturn.
5-4.
If we are lucky.
The Colorado justices just did what is on the mind of countless states.
They want to keep Trump off of their state ballots in any way possible.
They know he’s going to win if he gets the nomination, so they have to do whatever is necessary to stop him.
Innocent until proven guilty. That’s what Americans believe.
The Fascist believe that that courts serve the state purposes.
Americans believe in a Constitutional Republic.
The Fascist interfere with elections so fascists can stay in power.
I might add that at no time has Trump organized militia or used arms against the United States.
The Supreme Court of Colorado has decided that Trump is guilty, without a trial or evidence of something, and removed him as an option in a Federal election. If it stands, every state can now decide who can run for President within its borders. That limits the public’s ability to voice at the polls.
Thar’s election interference and civil rights interference. The SCOTUS refusal to hear an original jurisdiction case by Texas into those states that did not uphold election laws and allowed the 2020 vote without review have created a monster. This is the fruit of that lunacy, from a State that has had greater than 100% voter turnout by several counties in several consecutive elections.
“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.”
Colorado needs to pay the legal fees