Posted on 02/10/2024 4:23:45 PM PST by CFW
The lead attorney representing Colorado before the Supreme Court Thursday, arguing to remove Donald Trump from this year’s presidential ballots, admitted under questioning that his rationale could be applied to preemptively invalidate the outcome of an election.
As Breitbart News senior legal contributor Ken Klukowski explained after the oral arguments, CO’s lawyer Jared Murray was ill-prepared for myriad objections to the state’s legal case, even from liberal justices like Ketanji Brown Jackson. One moment highlighted by Klukowski reveals the “danger” of Murray’s reasoning — that even a few days before a national election, a state legislature could bar a candidate deemed an “insurrectionist” from winning the state’s electors in the Electoral College, even if they prevail in the people’s vote.
Read the full transcript of this exchange [emphasis added]:
"JUSTICE ALITO: I don’t know how much we can infer from the fact that we haven’t seen anything like this before and therefore conclude that we’re — we’re not going to see something in the future. From the time of the impeachment of President Johnson until the impeachment of President Clinton more than 100 years later, there were no impeachments of presidents. And in fairly short order, over the last couple of decades, we’ve had three. So I don’t know how much you can infer from that.
MR. MURRAY: Certainly, but if this Court affirms, this Court can write an opinion that emphasizes how extraordinary insurrection against the Constitution is and how rare that is because it requires an assault, not just on the application of law, but on constitutionally mandated functions themselves, like we saw on January 6th, a coordinated attempt to — to disrupt a function mandated by the Twelfth Amendment and essential to constitutional transfer of presidential power."
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“Can we get Democrats off the ballot that easily?”
There would have been ‘rat riots in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit in 2020.
A protest can be an opportunity to loot and burn.
Mostly peaceful gathering...
No fires, no looting, no police force standing by just
watching. No police cars destroyed. No Black people
killed.
Here in the South, states would let the blacks have an opportunity to vote after the white primary.
The blacks could vote for the Republican, who had as much chance as a snowball in a southern summer (or an Atlanta inferno), or they could vote for the white primary Democrat.
Those were the days when Amendment XV was taken at face value. Ever since 1943 its intent to not deprive a racial group of voting power has been the Supreme Court’s deciding factor.
Mail in balloting is what really should be challenged in the SCOTUS.
Insurrection is going to bite them in the ass. The President is immune. The Congress, federal officers and state officials are not immune.
Democrat states will void electors when Trump wins, and appoint electors for Biden, no matter how much Trump wins by. Republican states will appoint electors by whomever wins the election with the most votes.
Me too!
Ya....do we have a count of who would win if state legislatures alone chose the electors?
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Judges are supposed to represent the sanity and reason when all else is crazy. They are the foundation, the rock, the logic of or system. Not not a bunch of loonies themselves.
It should never get to the point of “That wouldn't happen since the institutions and the courts would stop it”.
Why? Because we, voters/citizens, lose our trust in the system. And when we lose our trust in the system, insanity and anarchy rule and that is not good. They need our confidence in the system and the process. For good or bad, “the system” should be above all. It should be golden. It should be platinum. It should be “beyond reproach.”
That is what a “Democracy” (ya I know that it is a Republic) is all about — you don't always win, and when you don't win, you accept the results peacefully because you believed that the process was fair and just. When people, for good reason, don't accept the results, you end up with Jan 6th or worse.
Instead of attacking the Jan 6 protesters, they should be asking why so many distrust the system. Tens of millions of people questioned the 2020 results. That is a lot of fellow Americans to be demonizing. The effort should be to prove to those tens of millions of Americans that the 2020 election was just and fair. Instead of hating them and sending their minions after the leadership like Trump and everyone who questioned the election... which by the way, is their 1st amendment right.
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