Trump off the Ballot in Colorado
There is no Rubicon the Left won't cross
The Rule of Law strikes yet again!
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled today that Trump cannot be on the ballot in the state because he has engaged in insurrection against the United States. This is a gross violation of all principles of constitutional interpretation and an obviously political attack on the leading opposition candidate to the regime.
To treat this as a legal question is, in one sense, obscene. We do not live in a nation of laws. When the Left wants to throw out the constitution, as it did during the COVID lockdowns, they do so with absolutely impunity.
There are hundreds of other examples of flagrant constitutional violations that the courts have steadily ignored in order to favor the Left. Trump has not been accused of treason or rebellion against the government of the United States. He has not been convicted of any crimes against this government. In fact, as I have pointed out before, he has not committed any such crimes.
The basis of the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling under the 14th amendment is insane. Section 3 of that amendment states:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
You’ll notice here that the Presidency is excluded from the list of offices that a person would be disabled from should they be convicted of insurrection or rebellion. So even if Trump were guilty of insurrection or rebellion he could still run for President.
In addition, Trump has never been convicted of insurrection or rebellion and he would need to be in order to be disabled under this law. Section 2 of the 14th amendment specifies that rebellion is a “crime.” If something is a crime then you need to be convicted in a court of law in order to prove that you committed it.
This ruling is insane, unprincipled, and obviously political. Americans need to WAKE up. We are headed toward profound and increasingly radical political repression.
Right now, the best response from Republicans would be for them to kick Biden off the ballot in swing states due to his corrupt dealings in Ukraine and China, as well as his vote for the Iraq War. Joe Biden is a war criminal who helped lead America into an unconstitutional war.
It is time to fight fire with fire.
All the judges live in Boulder, do they?
Hilarious.
It's easy, looking at history, to follow the stories of the decline and fall of nations and empires, in which the span of decades or centuries may pass in a day's reading. To "zoom out", though, when one is embedded in history in real time is another thing altogether, and far more difficult. But we are, at this point, rushing headlong past all of the familiar mile-posts.