Posted on 01/05/2024 8:02:24 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
Massachusetts voters are vying for former President Donald Trump's removal from their state’s Republican primary ballot, joining the growing set of efforts to prevent Trump from appearing on the 2024 primary ballot.
Free Speech For People and a Massachusetts-based civil rights firm are representing voters trying to block Trump from appearing on the state’s ballot under an insurrection clause of the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which prevents people who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office.
In a Thursday filing to the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission, the groups said the Republican front-runner, “through his words and actions, after swearing an oath as an officer of the United States to support the Constitution, engaged in insurrection or rebellion, or gave aid and comfort to its enemies, as defined by Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment,” and he is therefore ineligible to hold office.
“Donald Trump violated his oath of office and incited a violent insurrection that attacked the U.S. Capitol, threatened the assassination of the Vice President and congressional leaders, and disrupted the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in our nation’s history,” Ron Fein, Legal Director at Free Speech For People, said in a press statement.
Free Speech For People has filed lawsuits on behalf of voters in Minnesota, Michigan, and Oregon. The advocacy group also filed a suit in Illinois on Thursday with Illinois co-counsel Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym and election lawyer Ed Mullen.
“Our country faces a crisis in Trump’s bid for reelection. We cannot let a candidate who revels in undermining the rule of law continue his candidacy in clear violation of a constitutional mandate. In Illinois, the electoral board has a mandatory duty to keep disqualified candidates off the ballot. As the growing consensus of legal decisions show, Trump engaged in insurrection; he cannot run for president,” attorney Caryn Lederer said in a press statement announcing the efforts in Illinois.
Trump’s attorneys are appealing decisions in two states that would remove him from the primary ballot. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, ruled Trump should not be on the ballot last week, and her ruling came after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled he was ineligible to hold the presidency. The Supreme Court has yet to take up Trump's challenges to rulings against him, but that could change soon. Over a dozen states have pending lawsuits seeking to disqualify Trump from the ballot.
The irony-challenged champs.
Marxistchusetts voters are just plain idiots.
None of the active court cases against Trump make the charge of insurrection.
Massholes gotta be Massholes
All the cool Dem-kids are doing it now.
The end goal, as we all know, is a one-party dominant government for generations, like Mexico had.
As a MA Trump campaign volunteer, I say Bring It.
Any thoughts on whether these efforts could do real damage if successful just before a deadline with no time for court appeal reversal? Can a higher court put the brakes on ALL states doing this to prevent this BS?
Oh, we can have two parties. As long as the Democrats approve of our candidates.
And Speaker Johnson should just Declare Massachusetts is committing INSURRECTION, Remove both congress turds from all committee assignments and suspend All Privileges.
That is the way it will be done.
If you’ve read “Dune,” there’s a quote in there which encapsulates exactly this hypocrisy: “The forms must be observed.”
Those voters should be accused with murder and locked up. Like the accusation against DJT, no legal charge or conviction is necessary.
Now you begin to see the long range plan, begun by the Dims on Jan 6, 2021, for calling the riot at the Capitol an “insurrection”. The Pelosi partisan panel was to earn a “conviction” in the media, as the prop for lawfare actions against Trump that would continue. None of it are “separate” actions; it’s all been coordinated.
Another Mass of 2 Sh**s load.
“Voters.” What an activist headline and story. I like the way they make it sound like the whole state wants him off the ballot. Who are and how many “voters” are there, six?
I submit that we should have a National Referendum. Such a referendum, rather than being about “secession” should be about Kicking Out states the majority doesn’t want to be associated with anymore.
In such a referendum, I propose that Massachusetts be the FIRST state to be kicked out of the Union. 2n would be California. 3rd.....New York.
Only opponents we accept can run against our candidates. Okay.
“The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. What legislation has been adopted to enforce Section 3?”
I guess now that the nation just accuses folks of something despite there being no evidence to support the accusations, and it sticks evidently.
The 14th amendment is out of the bounds of both the state and federal requirements to get on the ballot.
U.S. Constitution. Section 9. No Bill of Attainder shall be passed.
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