Posted on 02/08/2024 11:53:18 AM PST by Red Badger
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday appeared highly critical of a Colorado Supreme Court decision that would ban former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 GOP primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
During more than two hours of oral argument in the historic case Trump v. Anderson, each of the court's nine justices expressed skepticism that an individual state has the authority to deny a candidate for federal office from the ballot as an "insurrectionist."
“It just doesn't seem like a state call,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett said.
“Why should a single state have the ability to make this determination not only for their own citizens, but for the rest of the nation?” said Justice Elena Kagan.
While the court's ultimate decision is not always clear based on the questions raised during a hearing, it appeared likely that a majority of the court is ready to reverse the Colorado decision and put an end to efforts nationwide seeking to disqualify Trump under the rarely used, 150-year-old constitutional provision.
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was drafted after the Civil War to prevent former Confederates from holding positions across government. It reads no person who took an oath as an "officer of the United States" who then "engaged in insurrection" can hold an office "under the United States" in the future.
Only Congress, it adds, can remove the disqualification by two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate. It does not spell out who gets to decide when someone has "engaged in insurrection" or how. The nation's highest court has never before examined the issue.
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I saw a picture of company in this article probably in another news source and it was some scruffy looking low life with a sign that said “Let The Reckoning Begin” I reckon a lot good folks of all races living within Urban borders are going to have to put up with a bunch of crazy nincompoops, because the Democrats “running” those cities aren’t going to do squat.
If you have a political party whose power base is poor, disaffected, uneducated people, you are going to make damn sure you NEVER RUN OUT OF POOR, DISAFFECTED, UNEDUCATED PEOPLE...............................
While Trump is likely to lose Colorado anyway (80-90% chance, IMO), we have to fight EVERY case tooth and nail. A victory for Trump here will objectively define the Left’s use of lawfare against him, particularly in the complete absence of any actual cogent issue-related arguments from the Left.
Not only that, it will take way their often used charge of "INSURRECTION" AS it just won't make sense given that was the reason Colorado pulled his name.
And there's the rub: there's no due process, no evidence, no defense, no findings in these cases... in some of these cases it's literally a single person making a determination. All of this is completely antithetical to the entire premise of our Constitution on many levels.
Which Justices?
I’m not sure now that John Roberts will decide the right way. It depends on which side of the bed he wakes up on.
So the entire supreme court has never examined the issue, but way back in the day before we had circuit courts of appeals, the justices of the supreme court would hear cases individually as sort of an appellate court lower than the supreme court as a whole. And it so happens that the Chief Justice of the supreme court did hear a case individually in such a capacity after the civil war, appealing a conviction from a trial judge who was a confederate military officer. He held that because congress had not yet passed any statute disqualifying confederate military officers from judgeships at the time of the conviction - though they would eventually - the conviction stood, because the 14th amendment was not self-executing. Congress had to act for it to have effect.
Imagine the anticipated outcome if the Hildebeast was prez and appointed three justices with the IQ of idiot Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Thank you President Trump!
Obvious to most. It does show how scary stupid and evil Brandon is. Hopefully this will pull the thread to unravel it all.
Obvious to most. It does show how scary stupid and evil Brandon is. Hopefully this will pull the thread to unravel it all.
Obvious to most. It does show how scary stupid and evil Brandon is. Hopefully this will pull the thread to unravel it all.
The attorneys for Colorado are getting their butts kicked - and HARD!
Given the constitutional importance of Due Process, can anyone point out when Trump was charged, tried and convicted of the specific charge of insurrection? Asking for about 80 million+ friends.
it all happened on Jan 6th... pelosi even made a movie about it. and so did i
https://rumble.com/v181401-january-6th-rally-2021.html
I would not be knocking Ketanji Brown Jackson today if I were you. She helped Trump’s case tremendously with her questions and apparent skepticism of the Colorado plaintiff’s positions. She also seemed pretty convinced that Section 3 did not apply to the Presidency.
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