Posted on 03/04/2024 11:38:12 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that the Supreme Court unanimously overturning a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that disqualified former President Donald Trump from the ballot was SCOTUS punting.
Raskin said, “The, court didn’t exactly disagree with it. They just said that they’re not the ones to figure it out. It’s not going to be a matter for judicial resolution under Section Three of the 14th Amendment, but it’s up to Congress to enforce it. I disagree with that interpretation just because the other parts of the 14th Amendment are self executing. People can go to court and say that something violates equal protection, even if there’s not a federal statute that allows them to do that. But any event, the Supreme Court punted and said, it’s up to Congress to act.”
He continued, “And so I am working with a number of my colleagues, including Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell, to revive legislation that we had to set up a process by which we could determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by section three of the 14th Amendment and the House of Representatives already impeached Donald Trump for participating in insurrection by inciting it. So the House has already pronounced upon that, and there was also a 57 to 43 vote in the Senate. The question is whether speaker Mike Johnson would allow us to bring this to the floor of the House?”
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Punted? The SCOTUS kicked your deranged, woke fannies in, if that’s what you mean, freak.
this is not going to end well for their side.
Democracy dies with Democrats.
Every problem we face is because Congress punted. Intentionally allowing Courts to decide. They want the President to determine when our border should be closed. 🙄
I'm smaat
When was the trial that convicted him? The one in their minds does not count.
Remind me of when Trump was convicted of ‘insurrection’.
What I call their insufferable self righteousness prevents them from ever folding their hand and backing away from the table
What I call their insufferable self righteousness prevents them from ever folding their hand and backing away from the table
Quit spending our hard-earned taxpayer dollars on the nonsensical.
Punted?
Raskin doesn’t even know the meaning of the word................
punted? what maroon! go on ahead and bring it up in the Senate IF you have the balls of Nikki Haley. otherwise stop telegraphing how comically and colossally Stupid you are. your constituents may all of a sudden wake up.
The liberals have deemed that Trump committed insurrection.
Liberal talking heads on cable TV news channels have deemed that Trump is guilty of said insurrection.
Because the liberal groupthink is that Trump committed insurrection, that is accepted as common knowledge on the liberal side of politics and commentary.
A 9-0 ruling is not a punt.
His will be a wet urea rich grave site when his day comes. It will continue on that way for decades. A truly horrible person.
Since it takes 2/3 of the Senate to convict him and remove him from office, isn't that vote saying "Not Guilty"?
Anything Congress passes cannot apply directly to President Trump. Any law Congress passes must apply to future acts of Presidents if they think the President is currently excluded from the 14th amendment.
-PJ
-PJ
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