Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from 2024 ballot based on 14th Amendment’s ‘insurrectionist ban’ — CNN
Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from 2024 ballot based on 14th Amendment’s ‘insurrectionist ban’ — CNN
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.”
Fucking good. About time
^^^^ You know how I know this place is a honeypot? ^^^
I mean nice and all but likely isn’t gonna mean much with SCOTUS likely to take it up
I thought states had full autonomy from the feds to run their election.
and now starts the debate of what is an insurrection.
I suspect scotus will overturn it. There have been no charges, much less a conviction that would trigger the clause in the 14th amendment.
It's pretty telling how far the left will go, it shows how terrified the establishment is of another Trump presidency.
It already exposed corruption at the highest levels.
Funny how the left screams "insurrection" over Jan 6 (where these victims were verbally nvited in by security, we have video of them unlocking doors to let people in, and the lies upon lies told about things such as the only death that day was a murder perpetrated by a security guard), but doesn't see the hundreds of people storming congress years ago as an insurrection because their side did it.
Honestly it's bad precedence.
Let him lose the election fairly again.
Let the voters decide.
letting the loser of a free and fair election stoke violence without consequence is bad precedent. enforcing the law is good precedent.
Copied from another comment you didn’t read.
No it's bad precedent.
Colorado barely had a majority on the decision, three other states ruled differently and Trump hasn't been convicted of anything yet in Congress or in court.
Do we want the pre-election period filled with both sides trying to disqualify the other side's nominee just because they have a majority in their state's Supreme Court?
He had his many days in court, with his own appointed justices, was unable to find any evidence of significant election fraud, and still he chose to lie about it anyways. To this day. He tried to subvert the people's will himself and refused to exercise a peaceful transfer of power, threatening and manipulating state leadership and his vice president to alter the results.
Just because he was unsuccessful, and he managed to brainwash a large enough group of people with his lies to maybe get elected again and to avoid conviction, doesn't mean we give him a chance to try again. That is a perfectly fine precedent to set.
That's not even counting the voter suppression that a state court probably wouldn't even consider, and his base absolutely refuses to hear. Encouraging voter intimidation, lying about well-established voting methods that are more likely to be used by the other party in some states, priming his base to reject the results with his "its me or its fraud" rhetoric leading up to the election, daring voter fraud within his own party and his followers to turn out and "stop the count" or "count the votes" wherever the results are turning out of his favor. The way I see it this is just beating him at his own game. He already set the precedent, we are mitigating its consequences.
No it's bad precedent.
Colorado barely had a majority on the decision, three other states ruled differently and Trump hasn't been convicted of anything yet in Congress or in court.
Do we want the pre-election period filled with both sides trying to disqualify the other side's nominee just because they have a majority in their state's Supreme Court?
Let the voters decide.
The left has decided after 2016 'the voters' cannot be trusted. So they will rig elections and feel smug about it while committing treason.
Smells like copium for backing the side of the aisle that can't generate popular/functional ideas for governing.
Not sure why you’re being down voted. That’s a reasonable response.
The reasonable response is to hold politicians accountable.