Colorado cannot disqualify
former President Donald Trump from appearing on the 2024 ballot, the
U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday. In a historic ruling, the Supreme Court said only Congress can
disqualify a candidate from the ballot using the Fourteenth Amendment’s
“Insurrection Clause”, overturning a 4-3 opinion
in December from the Colorado Supreme Court that the provision
prohibits former President Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot for
the presidency in 2024. That ruling partially reversed a prior ruling
in November that Trump is not an officer of the United States as
defined by the Fourteenth Amendment and that the Amendment therefore
cannot be used to disqualify him from appearing on the Colorado primary
ballot.......To Read More....
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My Take - Unanimous!!!
Amazing!!! Given the quality of seven of these jurists, I expected this
to be 5/4 decision. I do have to say, I'm shocked, shocked I tell
you. Pleasantly so, but shocked none the less.
Who
knows, is it possible this might actually be a turning point in the
federal judiciary? Nah....that's just me being a snot, since entirely
too many of them are nothing more than political hacks, and three of
those hacks are Jurists on the Supreme Court, with four more who are
just barely more than hacks.
As
it turns out, four of the Justices disagreed with part of that decision
that the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment could only be
enforced by federal legislation, which if what's been written in the
past is true, then they didn't go too far in their interpretation. And
guess who the four were? The three Nitwiteers, and Any Barrett. Has
she ever been a disappointment! I'm surprised that dingle-berry Roberts
didn't join in.
However, Barrett has her take on this, explaining the message Americans should take from this ruling, saying:
"In my judgment, this is not the time to amplify disagreement with
stridency. The Court has settled a politically charged issue in the
volatile season of a Presidential election. Particularly in this
circumstance, writings on the Court should turn the national temperature
down, not up,......For present purposes, our differences
are far less important than our unanimity: All nine Justices agree on
the outcome of this case. That is the message Americans should take
home."
Okay, but the fact is they didn't universally agree on what should be the application of the 14th Amendment, that's real issue, and their unanimous ruling was merely a side benefit. But, I will give her credit for a lovely smile. Bright...not so much!
She's like so many of these people who are prominent, they're clever giving the impression of being smart, but I see beyond their immediate fallacies and the consequences of those fallacies, and I don't think they're all that smart, and I don't care what their IQ may be.
However, it's been pointed out they've now left an opening in this decision to see things differently in some other case. That's to be watched, because you can never underestimate this court's ability to get stupid, Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Texas Law That Allows Police to Arrest Migrants,
A win for illegal immigrants.
Now here's the headline I really think is rich:
Joe Biden Complains Media Protect Donald Trump: ‘You’ve All Become Numbed’, saying: President Joe Biden faulted the establishment
media on Monday, claiming they do not accurately report on former
President Donald Trump. Polling shows media bias favors the Democrats. It also shows
58 percent of Democrats trust the establishment media, while only 11
percent of Republicans do, along with 29 percent of independents.......
Leftists melt down after SCOTUS nukes Colorado’s effort to keep Trump off the ballot - March 4, 2024 By Andrea Widburg - This morning, the
Supreme Court held that a state lacks authority under section 3 of the
14th Amendment to kick a presidential candidate off the state’s ballot.
To reach this conclusion, the Court carefully analyzed the history of
and purpose behind the 14th Amendment and the Constitution as a whole.
Once it concluded that Colorado’s Supreme Court erred, It could not and
did not look at the substantive issue of an alleged “insurrection.”
Leftists, however, are in complete meltdown mode over the fact that
SCOTUS did not say, “Trump is an insurrectionist!” You can read the decision or, if you’re pressed for time, my summary. The gist is simple: The 14th Amendment was intended to limit state power over the federal government, not expand it. The
fact that Colorado lacks this power means that SCOTUS did not need to
address whether Trump is an insurrectionist. That’s because a state
court cannot reach a potentially binding conclusion about “insurrection”
any more than a court in Zimbabwe can meaningfully conclude that Biden
is demented..............
BREAKING: Unanimous Supreme Court holds that individual states cannot remove Trump from the ballot -
March 4, 2024 By Andrea Widburg - Unsurprisingly, given the nature of oral argument during Trump v. Anderson,
the Supreme Court has released a unanimous decision reversing the
Colorado Supreme Court’s holding that Donald Trump was an
“insurrectionist” under Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment and, therefore,
should be barred from the Colorado ballot. This ruling, written in
accessible, logical, and unambiguous language, definitively ends a plan
that predated January 6 and helps re-federalize federal elections.
Although the Colorado Supreme Court didn’t issue its now-reversed ruling until last December, Democrats have been working since before January 6, 2021,
to keep Trump off the ballot for 2024. We have reason to believe that
Democrats hoped events on January 6 would get out of hand, given that
they removed any barriers (e.g., the National Guard, extra law
enforcement) to a potentially out-of-control protest on January 6.
Additionally, there were inexplicable behaviors that would agitate the
crowd and lead them into the Capitol—behaviors the Democrat-controlled
federal government has refused to investigate. More tellingly,
literally within hours of the day’s events, the word “insurrection”
appeared from Democrats, NeverTrumpers, and the media:..............
Inevitable: House Dems Already Working on Bill to Disqualify Trump -
Pam Key4 Mar 2024 -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.”......
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