Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to conclude that the state can lawfully bar former President Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot because of his actions in 2020 that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The case concerns, among other things, whether Trump “engaged in insurrection” under Section 3 of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment and is therefore prohibited from serving as president.
Griswold, a Democrat who is the top election official in the state, filed a brief ahead of Supreme Court arguments next week that defended Colorado’s process for determining whether candidates are eligible.
I’m voting against Trump, but imho this is the wrong way to defeat him. This is the kind of thing states would have done to MLK because of his civil disobedience… if the FBI hadn’t murdered him to silence his messages of racial equality and economic equity.
Trump must be defeated by the people’s vote. If he were to lose on the basis of being prohibited in some states, even with an adequate rationale as Colorado has, it will embolden and further radicalize his base rather than dishearten and deflate their members.
At the end of the day, any nation should succeed, or fail, based on the choices of its citizens, not by attempts to protect the citizens from accessing bad choices as this is.
Plus this is a strategic blunder politically, as the unaccountable and Republican captured SCOTUS will in all likelyhood overturn it, which will take a victory many are celebrating into a victory, enthusiasm boost, and talking point for Trump’s base to uninformed centrist decide on election day voters.
No we should not.
A flawed document too rigid and inflexible for modernity, designed by slave owners who suggested their class be the only class allowed to vote, the smartest of which said it wasn’t meant to be treated as a divine document in perpetuity, designed to govern less people by an order of magnitude at the speed of horse.
It was ahead of its time… a quarter millennium ago.
Also the corrupted SCOTUS decides what the Constitution, Amendments, and laws say and mean, and they’ve been clear it says whatever is convenient to their interests in the moment, without actionable recourse. Thanks for that, glorious founders.
The 14th Amendment was not designed by slave owners nor has modernity made it obsolete.
I’ll bet you’re not singing about the infallibilty of our Constitution when it comes to holding the judicial branch accountable to the other branches or the citizenry, but agree to disagree I guess.
The “politics” is that it’s the Constitution.
The “Constitution” says whatever our corrupt, unaccountable SCOTUS judges says it says, with no appeal or achievable recourse.
They can say whatever it says is the opposite, and that’s the end of it. Thank the glorious founders and their divine constitution for fucking up meaningful checks on the judicial. Welcome to thunderdome.
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