Posted on 01/25/2024 6:28:17 AM PST by CFW
The U.S. Supreme Court has signaled that it’s moving fast with former President Donald Trump’s appeal that seeks to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court ruling barring him from the ballot on 14th Amendment grounds.
A note accompanying the U.S. Supreme Court’s schedule for Feb. 8, the day the high court is set to hear the first oral arguments in the case, indicates that it intends to announce written opinions on the very same day. While the substance of the opinions has not been revealed, the declaration that they will be published on Feb. 8 is significant as it indicates that the Supreme Court views the case as having significant legal importance and warrants expedited consideration.
The question that the former president’s attorneys presented for consideration in their Jan. 3 petition was whether the Colorado Supreme Court incorrectly ordered President Trump excluded from the 2024 presidential ballot.
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Whatever right the leftist elites and their globalist overseers tell them.
IF the Court has in fact indicated this is an opinion day (and I do say IF) , it does NOT mean those opinions have anything to do with this case. In fact, I guarantee you any decisions will be in other cases that were argued months before hand. Pay no attention to this article.
Keep your powder dry.
Minor note: the Breitbart story about Jeff DeWit's resignation in Arizona didn't show his picture, but Kari Lake's.
:NeverTrumpin':
Exactly right. This story has either been conjured up by an idiot or is pure and simply click-bait nonsense. Or both.
Since Trump has not actually been convicted of anything l think he wins this 6-3. I bet Roberts will leave the door open so once there is an actual conviction a state can try to ban him.
Since Trump has not actually been convicted of anything l think he wins this 6-3. I bet Roberts will leave the door open so once there is an actual conviction a state can try to ban him.
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Pretty sure they will side against Colorado. Question is whether it will be on some narrow technical grounds or something broader which will shutdown these ballot challenges for good.
Agreed that this may be misreporting what will happen Feb 8. I haven’t been a close watcher of how the Supreme Court works, but a notice that opinions will be released that day does not mean this case opinion in particular, someone who keeps track of this could offer guidance I would trust more than a reporter who is not a lawyer.
You mean the one that was stored on Funk and Wagnal's front porch, since noon yesterday?
The all Democrat Colorado court narrowly decided this 4-3, so it would appear only the truly hard core leftists could justify their decision, and other Democrats justices on that court excoriated the decision.
If it’s not a total slam dunk when ultimately the decision is rendered (won’t be that day but likely very soon thereafter) it will probably be 8-1, with Kagan and Sotomayor joining the rational Justices.
Trump ‘24!
My court guru, who has yet to be wrong, Zen Master, thinks it will be unanimous or 8-1 in favor of President Trump.
So do I.
I agree with Red Badger that the fact they will have their written opinions ready indicates there was little disagreement over this, and we know Alito and Thomas won’t go along to get along.
"Supreme Court Moving Fast [??? emphasis added] In Trump Ballot Disqualification Case, Written Opinion Coming"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
First, the bottom line...
Consider that political party and media fuss about "obsolete" electoral college is because the electoral college is the only thing stopping the corrupt political parties from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
That being said, given the relatively straightforward language of the 12th Amendment (12A; electoral vote rules), the Supreme Court is arguably dragging its feet on so-called Trump ballot disqualification.
More specifically, noting that the corrupt political parties have been wrongly ignoring 12A for a long time imo, that amendment reasonably indicates that elector ballots are write-in ballots imo.
Excerpted from 12A:
"The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President [emphasis added], and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate, ..."
“3. The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters [emphasis added]; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction [spin] and no excuse for interpolation or addition.” —United States v. Sprague, 1931.
In fact, only restriction on the names that electors write in is that one of the names has to be someone residing outside the state they are representing, no mention of names being limited to candidates nominated by constitutionally undefined political parties.
Again, consider that corrupt political party and media fuss about "obsolete" electoral college is because the electoral college is the only thing stopping the corrupt political parties from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
I don’t understand.
What is the point of oral argument if the opinions are already written, and nothing said will alter the outcome?
The post says that the written opinion will be released the same day as oral arguments.
It’s a tax.
Of course declaring Trump guilty of insurrection is preposterous. He did not advocate violence and none of his supporters who entered the Capitol were armed.
A House committee handpicked by a Speaker of the opposing party does not have the authority to find a person guilty of insurrection.
It’s a tax (reparations).
The recent lack of Dem hoo-rah that “Trump cannot be on the ballot because he is an insurrectionist” suggests that they know the Court will firmly line up in favor of Trump being on the ballot.
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