A Supreme Court decision could come Monday in a case about barring Trump from the 2024 ballot
A Supreme Court decision could come Monday in a case about barring Trump from the 2024 ballot
Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that said he is disqualified from being president again and ineligible for the state’s primary.
I really hope they do the right thing and yet I have the awful feeling they won’t.
Well, the Christofascist regime has paid good money for those judges. If they bar him from the ballot I'll most likely go into shock.
Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay were the three main authors of the U.S. Constitution and The Federalist Papers.
Many of these right-wing, theocratic judges belong to The Federalist Society.
Go figure; there are so many f**king contradictions at this point that it's hard to keep track of them all.
Haha, you're silly. That was just houses and exotic vacations and stuff. And we talk about the issues they preside over. Just normal BFF stuff!
3 members of SCOTUS were appointed by Trump. The other GOP nominated members are terrible people.
They will just make something up and make Colorado keep him on the ballot.
They won’t. The conservative majority are evil people, who are loyal to Trump. If Trump is in trouble, they’ll help him.
They aren't loyal to Trump, they're loyal to their checking accounts, so the question becomes who do their owners want for the Republican nominee.
Realistically they're going to look at precedent, how it was used in the past. The cases where it's been used in the past fall into two groups - public officials of the Confederacy and people convicted in criminal court of an appropriate charge (which includes one case of someone being convicted of a Jan 6 related charge and before that the last application was a case in 1919 of someone convicted under the Espionage Act).
I fully expect them to say that barring holding a public position in a group whose purpose violates 14A that they would require a criminal conviction. Because that's the only thing that fits precedent.
The alternative that people seem to be hoping for is that a candidate should be able to be barred from the ballot if a state judge feels it's likely enough they violated 14A, where "likely enough" isn't clearly defined (and doesn't require any particular due process) but is definitely enough to bar Trump. I just don't think that's going to happen.
Sadly, the 'right thing' in this case actually is to rule against Colorado. It will be an utter shit-show with each state deciding which candidates can or can't run in their state if this is upheld.
It's based on a legal theory from the constitution. There's no grey area on this one, just what brand of feelings people use to justify their position.
There is actually good reason to keep someone off a ballot who attempts a coup, and tries to take power by undemocratic means. And it's not really that hard to see where the reasoning comes in.
States already do that with minimums on signatures for third parties and other ballot requirements.
This just happens to affect one of the two big parties.
Go read the Constitution before you spout nonsense. Each state has always had the right to decide which candidates can or can't run.
How do the states not do that already?
Meh, elections are already a shit-show. The popular vote is disregarded, and the candidate with fewer votes can win...this is a undemocratic. Democracy is fundamentally broken already.
I agree with you in general.
But it's not a flaw SCOTUS has any business fixing. It needs to be done via Congress, and probably a constitutional amendment.
America's entire federal voting system is...not done federally. Each state is left to decide how it wants to run its elections themselves, with the states drawing electoral boundaries, deciding rules for who's eligible to vote, how the physical act of voting is done, etc. This is an utterly insane way to run a national election. States can set their own rules for state elections, maybe, but federal elections should be consistent nation-wide.
Until Congress fixes this incredibly fundamental flaw in the US electoral system, states have the right to do shit like this whether for good (and hopefully we can all agree that anything that keeps Trump out of office is good) or ill (because you just know Republicans will twist it in states they control).
If it's Monday-Thursday, my bet is against Trump. If they wait until Friday, they are too scared of the repercussions and you know which way they will go.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court decision could come as soon as Monday in the case about whether former President Donald Trump can be kicked off the ballot over his efforts to undo his defeat in the 2020 election.
The resolution of the case on Monday, a day before Super Tuesday contests in 16 states, would remove uncertainty about whether votes for Trump, the leading Republican candidate for president, will ultimately count.
Trump also has since been barred from primary ballot in Illinois and Maine, though both decisions, along with Colorado’s, are on hold pending the outcome of the Supreme Court case.
Separately, the justices last week agreed to hear arguments in late April over whether Trump can be criminally prosecuted on election interference charges, including his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The court’s decision to step into the politically charged case, also with little in the way of precedent to guide it, calls into question whether Trump will stand trial before the November election.
Of those, the only one with a trial date that seems poised to hold is his state case in New York, where he’s charged with falsifying business records in connection with hush money payments to a porn actor.
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