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.”
Poll taxes were a scheme democrats uses to stop POCs from voting. They were abolished with the 24th. Amendment. Literacy tests were another way racists democrats suppressed voting that was stopped with the voting rights act of 1965.
Is there precedent? I'm not aware of anyone else who's been banned from elections for insurrection, but this also isn't my area. I kind of assumed it would follow the 'innocent until proven guilty in a court of law' thing, but I also don't know how much of a hard and fast rule that is for this type of crime.
I am genuinely curious. I kind of assumed he would never actually be charged and the amendment could never be invoked as a result.
Not sure what you mean by historical presidents. Did you mean precedence ? Prior cases we people who actually formed a new country. I’m not aware of anything other cases where there was a riot alone. Can you cite a prior case where they were not in a state that rebelled ?
I suspect because he was never part of a rebellion, has not been charged with it or convicted of it, scotus will reject the courts opinion.
The previous cases didn’t need a conviction because it was considered de facto
I dislike Trump. I met him in person when he was a liberal democrat. He’s not a conservative.
That said, I do not think he tried to overthrow the government and I agree. It’s a dangerous precedent. Let the voters decide.
I think of Trump had left with grace, he’d stomp Biden in the next election. Instead he’s thrown a childish shit fit and that turns a lot of people off.
I won’t vote for Biden but that doesn’t mean I’lol vote for Trump. In 2016 I didn’t vote because both were garbage.