Colorado Supreme Court says Trump is ineligible to run again
Colorado Supreme Court says Trump is ineligible to run again
It ruled that Trump engaged in an insurrection by stoking the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
• 1. Pointless gesturing, Colorado would never have gone for Trump anyway
• 2. If he engaged in insurrection, charge him. Do it. Charge him for treason in the state of Colorado. Otherwise shut up.
only the federal DOJ, the president, or congress can charge someone w treason. this might be the most Colorado can do, as milquetoast as it is
edit: on further investigation, some states do have laws against treason and people have been tried for treason by individual states’ courts
John Brown was hanged, for treason against Virginia
It's not pointless, it's a test case.
Why would Colorado be able to charge him w treason?
States can charge individuals with it, I'd assume mostly stemming from Civil War related nonsense (like someone else pointed out, John Brown was charged with treason by Virginia, not the US at large)
Colorado's statute on Treason
A person commits treason if he levies war against the state of Colorado or adheres to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless upon the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or upon confession in open court. Treason is a class 1 felony.
I'd think a fairly easy argument to make would be inciting revolt against US Congress fits the bill of 'adheres to enemies, giving aid and comfort', but we all know libs are scared to go the whole way against their fashy friends
America if it was based:
incoming 6-3 SC decision saying "nuh uh"
Maybe even 7-2.
im at the edge of my seat
Conservative control of the Supreme Court aside, it’s never been firmly established if the President constitutes an officer of the United States per the 14th amendment. So there’s a lot of room for interpretation, and some decent legal arguments, that it doesn’t.
As if legal arguments matter at all. The SC is playing Calvinball.
ok now do it in a state that might have actually voted for him
Georgia would be the state most likely to do so. If Trump gets convicted of a state crime, that might kill his nomination.
I'd like to see ol DT wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
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print("I'd like to see ol DT wriggle his way out of THIS jam!");
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Ok hear me out, somehow this survives all appeals and sticks. 3rd parties focus all their efforts on Colorado. Dems don't show up to the polls because there's no way Biden could lose, meanwhile 3rd party voters and bitter GOP supporters show up and flip the state yellow. Trump wins by one state.
Smh just what Putin wants
yellow
libertarian? are they even running people with all their voters being Trump-hogs now?
I just meant it as the 3rd primary color
Or Colorado elects a different kind of Red...
Finally, some spicy electoralism
I mean it was a Bernie state in both 2016 and 2020. There's no way in hell a republican would win anything more than our most inbred counties and they're dwarfed in population by the all-but-one democratic cities.
I don’t think this is a good move. It will only trigger the persecution complex of the conservatives, even those who don’t like Trump, and they will come out in droves just to stick it to the Democrats to make a point.
Why do anything like this when Biden already has the upper hand (disregard the polling, which is way too early to be informative at this point).
Rainbows and Disney cartoons trigger their persecution complex. Chuds are never not miserable and dangerous.
Still not a good idea to let Trump become the martyr that unifies the conservatives. I’m talking not just the crazy MAGA people, but the moderate conservatives that may have been repulsed by Trump, and are starting to see that Biden is actually more capable of realizing their vision.
Now they are just going to see the Democrats as “openly out to persecute conservatives”, and if they don’t defend Trump, whom they don’t like, they could be next.
come out in droves just to stick it to the Democrats to make a point
how they gonna do that if the big wet boy ain't on the ballot?90% forecast of a terrorism about it if they don't retreat on appeal tho
I hear about Colorado over and over for horrible shit. It seems like the place where people retaliate. Step away from the lathe
Colorado has judicial elections doesn't it? Easy political win for lib judges to stoke their base by saying that they protected democracy by ruling against Drumpf.
I dont know what this Cheeto of a man likes more: Whataboutism, or freaking Whataburger. One thing is for sure, he doesn't have America's best interests at heart. That spells trouble for Democracy.
whataboutism 
I've missed you buddy. You've been too effective and has scared away the lib-word, so now you're never around. Such is life
Time for the US to invade itself to protect freedom and democracy (TM)
Colorado never would have went for Trump, so congratulations, all that does is make him a martyr even MORE.
trump committed treason by lying about the election results and telling people to go protest about it at the capitol? this is just a flimsy attempt to stop his victory next year
lol
Ladies and gentlemen: we got him.
