Posted on 12/20/2023 7:32:57 AM PST by Navy Patriot
The U.S. Supreme Court could rule "9-0" for President Donald Trump if he appeals the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling kicking him off the state's 2024 ballot, former White House lawyer Ty Cobb is predicting.
"I think this case will be handled quickly. I think it could be 9-0 in the Supreme Court for Trump," Cobb, who has served as a member of the Trump administration legal team, told CNN's Erin Burnett Tuesday after the ruling. "It will be a race to get there. I mean, the Supreme Court, though, will not hesitate to move quickly on this. They know what is at stake."
He also argued that the "law is clear" on the issue.
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That is a point often forgotten. The several State Legislatures are, each in its own State, the absolute masters of the Presidential election. Courts have nothing to do with it. Any judge who gets involved, other than to tell a lower ranking judge to butt out, is violating his own oath of office.
This court's ruling is for the primary election, which is strictly party business. Where does a court deign to tell a party who they can run in their own primary elections?
-PJ
Yes ... it’s a naked power grab.
Not sure how things in your State work. In WV, we don’t vote for a candidate in Presidential primary elections. We vote for convention delegates who are pledge to initial support for a particular candidate.
Certain numbers have esoteric meaning and symbolism, like 9, 13 and 33 in Freemasonry.
There are numbers that show up often in the news and in current events. 33 and 13 are common. Both these numbers are also prominent in U.S. history, government and culture.
BTTT!
The same 14th amendment prevents the Colorado Supreme Court from removing anyone from the Presidential ballot.
The 14th amendment section 2 has a punishment for abridging the right to vote:
But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.Note that this buttresses the exclusion of the President and Vice President from section 3, since section 2 speaks about denying or abridging the right to vote for the choice of Electors, and keeping someone off the ballot is the highest form of denial and abridgment.
The authors of the amendment were afraid that state institutions (especially the state courts) would pass laws post-emancipation to deny full access to the ballot, both as voters (abridged) and as candidates (choice of Electors). Now we have the Colorado Supreme Court trying to do just that, keep someone off of the ballot.
The Constitutional punishment for preventing voters from voting for Electors of their choice in a state should be the direct loss of seats in the House of Representatives, and the indirect loss of Electors in the next election.
If the Colorado Supreme Court blocks President Trump from appearing on the ballot, they are denying the entire state the right to choose President Trump. It doesn't matter what polling suggests the actual vote would be, the entire state is denied the choice.
The 14th amendment should punish Colorado with the loss of their ENTIRE House delegation, and with it their Electoral College allocation, leaving Colorado with only the two Electors based on the Senate.
-PJ
I am expecting a 5-4 ruling against Trump. Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson, and Gorsuch. Gorsuch is a Colorado boy, can’t oppress the homies.
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