To the supreme court they go... I think we can predict the voting there down to the individual justice.
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i can hear Harlan Crowe's checkbook creaking open from here
Unreal that only one state has bothered to do this. He's a Russian UI, bigot billionaires' puppet, a fucking insurrectionist and spews Nazi propaganda, but hey let's give him another chance to decimate democracy.
I agree with your description of him, but the only thing that's relevant here is the insurrection. It's important not to muddy the waters with the other stuff!
The other stuff is just as relevant because he's dangerous on all fronts. While legally the insurrection gives grounds to disqualify him, everything else, in fact each thing by itself - the racism, ableism, sexism, carrying out the agenda of right wing nutjobs, Russia, should, in a civilized society, make him a political leper. Instead he's a viable candidate, after 4 torturous years of moron, an attempted insurrection, numerous trials, convicted of rape ... and here we are all again.
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The Colorado supreme court on Tuesday declared Donald Trump ineligible to hold office again under the US constitution’s insurrection clause.
The ruling sets up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to settle whether the January 6 attack on the Capitol amounted to an insurrection, and whether Trump’s involvement disqualifies him from running for office.
“We have full confidence that the US supreme court will quickly rule in our favor and finally put an end to these un-American lawsuits,” said Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesperson.
Nonpartisan US election forecasters view Colorado as safely Democratic, meaning that Joe Biden will likely carry the state regardless of Trump’s fate.
The decision is a victory for advocacy groups and anti-Trump voters who have mounted several similar legal challenges to the former president’s candidacy under section 3 of the 14th amendment, which was enacted after the American civil war to keep former Confederates from returning to power.
Trump “betrayed his oath to the Constitution by engaging in insurrection against it, and by doing so he made himself ineligible for public office”, said Sean Grimsley, an attorney representing the plaintiffs.
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