As a Maine voter, I am equally appalled. Apparently, our Sec of State says Trump is an insurrectionist so it must be true! Forget due process, forget a trial, forget a conviction. I don't intend to vote for him, but I want my fellow citizens to know their vote matters, that no one will deny them the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice. This decision, if upheld, sets a very dangerous precedent.
It’s truly a brave new world. I don’t feel like there is much to keep the GOP from taking candidates off the ballot for whatever reason they want to imagine now, and why not extend that to Congress critters? Which I think would actually happen if SCOTUS doesn’t take this strategy off the table.
It's obvious that Team D (with the tacit approval of much of the establishment wing of Team R) intends to rig the election by imprisoning the opposition candidate or removing him from the ballot.
Yes there is a way this ends well. Trump is elected President in 2024. Any other outcome will exponentially aggravate the insanity. If these Third World Democrat antics succeed they will never end. The Democrats have exposed the insane underbelly of their movement so now everyone can see it and must act to end their madness.
Democrats don't CARE if it ends well. They've been trying to destroy the country for at least the last 8 years.
And this is EXACTLY why they kept calling 1/6 "insurrection" -- it's the magic word that allows them to remove him from the ballot. THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN. Knowing that, you should understand why they're so desperate to keep video evidence of what happened on 1/6 secret.
Let the Governors of the Southern border states remove Joe from the ballot. He has committed treason for not upholding his oath to protect our country. Can you imagine MSM on reacting to that?
But section 5 is very specific in saying all 14th Amendment sections shall be enforced by an act of Congress: "The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." The word "shall" is usually used in the exclusive sense, meaning no other way than "appropriate legislation". The focus on Article 3 is just another example of bogus Democrat lawfare hoodwinking.
This is all so bewildering. I am almost forced to put on my tin foil hat. What the hell is going on? Are the Democrats playing 3D chess? Is there some ulterior motive? Or is this just a case of arrogance and stupidity? Or maybe this is just a nation coming apart at the seams.
The citizens of Colorado and Maine should be embarrassed. Even the CA crazies don’t appear to want to go the route of these two disgraceful states. You’re right Matt. This will not end well…for a Democrat party that is now much closer to Karl Marx than JFK.
People in the media really really hate trump. And honestly he isn’t that great, but he’s also not the anti-Christ. I am trying to imagine a path which doesn’t lead to...gulp....violence and I think our one and only salvation is almost no one I talk to IRL cares. America is walking blindly goofily and clumsily into technocracy and everyone is like, life’s never been better! We have an incredible predilection towards chewing the cud. Sitting on the couch, watching Netflix. It is more culturally acceptable to take ass pics for your onlyfans at your grandmother’s birthday than it is to say the word congress in polite conversation. Everyone knows that politics are a pretend world where up is down and down is up. It isn’t until this upside down world turns off the power or makes gas $8 a gallon that anyone will stop grazing at their pile of media and entertainment that they slop up from their feeds. We are incapable of bringing light to the darkness. And that might just be fine for everyone.
I am a lawyer, and predict that Trump's removal will be struck down by the courts just like it was in Colorado. It will increase his poll numbers, too. Maybe Trump should send Ms. Bellows flowers.
“We are a nation of laws, none of which apply to us,” - the liberal elite
As a Maine voter, I am equally appalled. Apparently, our Sec of State says Trump is an insurrectionist so it must be true! Forget due process, forget a trial, forget a conviction. I don't intend to vote for him, but I want my fellow citizens to know their vote matters, that no one will deny them the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice. This decision, if upheld, sets a very dangerous precedent.
It’s truly a brave new world. I don’t feel like there is much to keep the GOP from taking candidates off the ballot for whatever reason they want to imagine now, and why not extend that to Congress critters? Which I think would actually happen if SCOTUS doesn’t take this strategy off the table.
“Hey! We’re trying to save Our Democracy(TM) here!”
“This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you”
“Saving” their “Democracy” by destroying It. I fear for our Republic. Keep up the fight Matt!
It's obvious that Team D (with the tacit approval of much of the establishment wing of Team R) intends to rig the election by imprisoning the opposition candidate or removing him from the ballot.
Basic banana republic stuff.
So what does anyone propose to do about it?
Yes there is a way this ends well. Trump is elected President in 2024. Any other outcome will exponentially aggravate the insanity. If these Third World Democrat antics succeed they will never end. The Democrats have exposed the insane underbelly of their movement so now everyone can see it and must act to end their madness.
There's no way this ends well.
Unless NASA miscalculated the trajectory of Asteroid 2023 TK15.
Democrats don't CARE if it ends well. They've been trying to destroy the country for at least the last 8 years.
And this is EXACTLY why they kept calling 1/6 "insurrection" -- it's the magic word that allows them to remove him from the ballot. THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN. Knowing that, you should understand why they're so desperate to keep video evidence of what happened on 1/6 secret.
Let the Governors of the Southern border states remove Joe from the ballot. He has committed treason for not upholding his oath to protect our country. Can you imagine MSM on reacting to that?
But section 5 is very specific in saying all 14th Amendment sections shall be enforced by an act of Congress: "The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." The word "shall" is usually used in the exclusive sense, meaning no other way than "appropriate legislation". The focus on Article 3 is just another example of bogus Democrat lawfare hoodwinking.
How will future generations even parody this crap? I mean it is already self parody right now.
This is all so bewildering. I am almost forced to put on my tin foil hat. What the hell is going on? Are the Democrats playing 3D chess? Is there some ulterior motive? Or is this just a case of arrogance and stupidity? Or maybe this is just a nation coming apart at the seams.
The citizens of Colorado and Maine should be embarrassed. Even the CA crazies don’t appear to want to go the route of these two disgraceful states. You’re right Matt. This will not end well…for a Democrat party that is now much closer to Karl Marx than JFK.
People in the media really really hate trump. And honestly he isn’t that great, but he’s also not the anti-Christ. I am trying to imagine a path which doesn’t lead to...gulp....violence and I think our one and only salvation is almost no one I talk to IRL cares. America is walking blindly goofily and clumsily into technocracy and everyone is like, life’s never been better! We have an incredible predilection towards chewing the cud. Sitting on the couch, watching Netflix. It is more culturally acceptable to take ass pics for your onlyfans at your grandmother’s birthday than it is to say the word congress in polite conversation. Everyone knows that politics are a pretend world where up is down and down is up. It isn’t until this upside down world turns off the power or makes gas $8 a gallon that anyone will stop grazing at their pile of media and entertainment that they slop up from their feeds. We are incapable of bringing light to the darkness. And that might just be fine for everyone.
I am a lawyer, and predict that Trump's removal will be struck down by the courts just like it was in Colorado. It will increase his poll numbers, too. Maybe Trump should send Ms. Bellows flowers.
“DEMOCRACY’’ IS ON THE BALLOT <unless it’s not>