Supreme Court agrees to weigh whether Trump can be kicked off ballot in Colorado
Supreme Court agrees to weigh whether Trump can be kicked off ballot in Colorado
The case raises a novel legal question under a constitutional clause that prohibits those who have "engaged in insurrection" from serving in the federal government.
The justices will review a decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that said Trump could be barred from the Republican primary ballot in that state, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruling is likely to have national repercussions, potentially setting guidelines that would determine how every other state would handle the issue.
The brief order said the case would be argued on an accelerated schedule on Feb. 8, indicating that a ruling will follow soon after.
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"There is also the possibility that if Trump is kicked off the ballot, Republicans could take retaliatory action by doing the same to President Joe Biden. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has already floated such a move."
I wonder that excuse they'll dream up to try to pull this off.
They're not expecting to actually pull it off, it's just posturing for their dumbfuck base.
Those far rights can't care less about reasons.
That’s one of the reasons they love religion. All you gotta do is claim that the other side is EVIL. No logic, proof, or accountability necessary.
The one I've heard floated is not securing the border to their satisfaction somehow constitutes insurrection and since a lot of people have argued there doesn't have to be any conviction or factual determination by a court it would stick just as well as the Jan 6th stuff against Trump.
That just means every member of congress is an insurrectionist because they have just as much or more power to change that.
It is not insurrection in either todays definition or the 14ths contemporary definition, and that would be slapped down.
A brand new congress? I could get behind that.
Ok? They aren’t trying to actually have it be upheld, they’re trying to highlight the farce in Colorado.
Is it a farce, though? Isn't more like they want to make it a farce, just like how they are trying to make impeachment a farce?
Republicans leafing through The Sovereign Citizen's Guide to Vexatious Litigation for ideas as we speak
Hunter's laptop, Hillary's emails and Obama's tan suit.
Grey poupon!
Buttery males with freeze peaches
If we enforce the law it might be enforced badly. Is a pretty bad argument.
It's a bad argument to consider not enforcing the law, but it's not an incorrect statement. Republicans responded to the impeachment of Trump by continously trying to impeach Biden. They're responding to the insurrection by pointing at things dems do and yelling insurrection.
It's dumb and incorrect, but it's pretty effective at diluting the seriousness of those particular actions to their own voter base. You could argue that that's the point.
And how is their trying going? Did they pull it off yet? They control the house and have such for nearly two years.
It’s dumb and incorrect, but it’s pretty effective at diluting the seriousness of those particular actions to their own voter base. You could argue that that’s the point.
Citation needed. I want you to show that polling has gone up for them as a result of their lackluster efforts.
I don't need to show you statistics to shed light on their intent. It's not hard to figure out what they're doing. It's also not hard to see that what they're doing is damage control. The result of that would be keeping their polls from going down, not making them go up. You can't prove a negative, so I don't know what you want me to do.
As far as diluting the seriousness of what they've done, go turn on fox news. They blast Biden's "insurrection" and impeachment "proceedings" 24/7. Do you need more proof than that?
Lastly, if you're trying to defend your original statement, you're preaching to the choir here. You don't have to be an asshole about it. It's a bit asinine to assert that they aren't doing it with intent.
Nobody wants Texassistan in the union, not even Texass. Heh.
The only thing I have heard is that anyone who supported the BLM movement during the rioting is essentially supporting anti american values thus insurrection. I have heard this from a few separate places.
Trump being disqualified from running in Colorado and Biden being disqualified from running in Texas are not equally important in the election.