The Colorado Supreme Court is removing former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot, saying he is ineligible to be president.
In a stunning and unprecedented decision, the Colorado Supreme Court removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot, ruling that he isn’t an eligible presidential candidate because of the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.”
“Even when the siege on the Capitol was fully underway, he continued to support it by repeatedly demanding that Vice President (Mike) Pence refuse to perform his constitutional duty and by calling Senators to persuade them to stop the counting of electoral votes.
“President Trump’s direct and express efforts, over several months, exhorting his supporters to march to the Capitol to prevent what he falsely characterized as an alleged fraud on the people of this country were indisputably overt and voluntary.”
Ratified after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment says officials who take an oath to support the Constitution are banned from future office if they “engaged in insurrection.” But the wording is vague, it doesn’t explicitly mention the presidency, and has only been applied twice since 1919.
We have full confidence that the U.S. Supreme Court will quickly rule in our favor and finally put an end to these unAmerican lawsuits,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.
Chief Justice Brian Boatright, one of the three dissenters on the seven-member court, wrote that he believes Colorado election law “was not enacted to decide whether a candidate engaged in insurrection,” and said he would have dismissed the challenge to Trump’s eligibility.
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AP: Colorado Supreme Court bans Trump from the state’s ballot under Constitution’s insurrection clause | @negativenull@startrek.website
Washington Post: Donald Trump is barred from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot, the state Supreme Court rules | @silence7@slrpnk.net
CNBC: Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Trump from 2024 ballot, pauses ruling to allow appeal | @return2ozma
NBC News: Colorado Supreme Court kicks Donald Trump off the state’s 2024 ballot for violating the U.S. Constitution. | 18-24-61-B-17-17-4
CNN: Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from 2024 ballot | A Phlaming Phoenix
CNN:Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from 2024 ballot based on 14th Amendment’s ‘insurrectionist ban’ | @Boddhisatva
New York Times: Trump Is Disqualified From the 2024 Ballot, Colorado Supreme Court Rules | @silence7@slrpnk.net
I don’t give a fuck how I sound, it’s the truth and you’re going to accept it whether you like it or not.
The System Is Not Legitimate and you will not bully us into pretending it is anymore.
The Supreme Court already arbitrarily banned abortion and Clarence Thomas himself said other civil rights would be next, so go take your anti-disestablisment rhetoric and shove it. You’re wrong. Period.
So then if SCOTUS doesn’t take the case or if they side with the state supreme court… how about your statements above?
Might be a good opportunity to reflect on your opinions and how you share them with others.
I mean. Read your comments up there. I’d be pretty embarrassed if such confident, aggressive statements turned out to be wrong.
Will you be embarrassed if SCOTUS rules correctly? Will you even remember making those comments?
Then I would be relieved the way I was relieved they didn’t side with the independent state legislature theory assholes.
And they would still never, ever have any recognition of their claims to legitimacy from me again, and I will continue to live my life disrespecting them and violating their decrees, because it’s too late for them. Roe vs. Wade was the final nail in the coffin for me. And you know what reinforces that every day? Scumfucks like you.
Because it’s obvious you’re not looking for an honest discussion or to genuinely convince someone to have hope in earnest. You view me as an inconvenience and my strong arguments as a threat to your system’s hegemony, so you’re looking to discredit, bully and hurt me to try to shut me up like you always do.
Well, what are you going to do when you realize that doesn’t work, and other people actually do have minds of their own? Do you have a plan B for that, while you’re arrogantly assuming you can bullshit people into taking more and more abuse? You think the others here are just stupid? Will you be embarrassed or will you be counting hundos from whoever paid you off?
Stand by for a detailed response once I’m back from the scumfuck meeting where dark figures pay us to post rational comments on Lemmy.
Can’t talk now. I don’t want to miss the keynote speaker, George Soros.
