Trump Is Disqualified From the 2024 Ballot

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Dec 19, 2023.

  1. piezoe

    piezoe

    How is it possible for anyone, such as yourself, to get things so upside down? No conviction of sedition is required to be ineligible to run for Federal Office under the 14th Amendment. Few, if any, of the Southern Confederate insurrectionists made ineligible by the 14th Amendment to run for Federal Office in post Civil War America were ever convicted of seditious conspiracy. Their "participation" in an insurrection was sufficient to disqualify them. Thus there is a strong legal precedent that Trump must overcome. Trump, like those declared ineligible before him, is a non-convicted insurrection participant. The Colorado Courts reading of the Amendment is very much an originalist's reading --- one to make Scalia grin from ear to ear in his grave. There are several members of the current High Court who identify with "originalism".
     
    Last edited: Dec 20, 2023
    #41     Dec 20, 2023
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  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #42     Dec 20, 2023
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  3. piezoe

    piezoe

    #43     Dec 20, 2023
  4. Ricter

    Ricter

    The Amendment doesn't say "convicted of", it says "engaged in".
     
    #44     Dec 20, 2023
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  5. Ricter

    Ricter

    Oh you haven't even seen "banana republic shit", Trump's still alive, isn't he?
     
    #45     Dec 20, 2023
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    #46     Dec 20, 2023
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  7. Ricter

    Ricter

    I'm glad you included that "little" caveat.
     
    #47     Dec 20, 2023
  8. Ricter

    Ricter

    Thanks, I forgot about the "given aid or comfort" part.
     
    #48     Dec 20, 2023
  9. mervyn

    mervyn

    this guy wants to delay all his active cases in which he is indicted but wants a fast track the ballot case.

    are his lawyers getting paid?
     
    #49     Dec 20, 2023
  10. wildchild

    wildchild

    The Democrats claim is that they are saving democracy by disqualifying candidates they don't like.

    Every justice on the Colorado Supreme Court was appointed by a Democrat.

    Democrats once again on the wrong side of history.
     
    #50     Dec 20, 2023