Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said that while he didn’t want to do it, he had to remind people of how “severe” the situation is.

A top Republican official in Missouri is threatening to remove President Joe Biden from appearing on the ballot as retaliation for the determination in two other states that Donald Trump doesn’t qualify because he “engaged in insurrection.”

“What has happened in Colorado & Maine is disgraceful & undermines our republic,” Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft wrote on the social media site X on Friday. “While I expect the Supreme Court to overturn this, if not, Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for @realDonaldTrump applies equally to @JoeBiden!”

Ashcroft’s post came shortly after the Supreme Court agreed to review a decision by Colorado’s high court that found Trump could be barred from the state’s primary ballot because of his actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

  • @[email protected]
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    110 months ago

    It won’t be the good guys that make it trivial. The bad guys just get off by using real justice against us.

    If Trump makes it into the General Election, whether he wins or loses, we are a fallen state whose Constitution is meaningless. And I GUARANTEE the bad people are already using the hell out of that.

    • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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      010 months ago

      If Trump makes it into the General Election, whether he wins or loses, we are a fallen state

      Nah. Hyperbole.

      whose Constitution is meaningless.

      The 14th ammendment may need rework, but that doesn’t burn the entire document

      I GUARANTEE the bad people are already using the hell out of that.

      Genuinely interested in what these bad people are doing regarding the Constitution. Can you give examples?