Colorado secretary of state urges Supreme Court to keep Trump off the ballot

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to conclude that the state can lawfully bar former President Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot because of his actions in 2020 that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The case concerns, among other things, whether Trump “engaged in insurrection” under Section 3 of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment and is therefore prohibited from serving as president.

Griswold, a Democrat who is the top election official in the state, filed a brief ahead of Supreme Court arguments next week that defended Colorado’s process for determining whether candidates are eligible.

AllonzeeLV, (edited )

I’m voting against Trump, but imho this is the wrong way to defeat him. This is the kind of thing states would have done to MLK because of his civil disobedience… if the FBI hadn’t murdered him to silence his messages of racial equality and economic equity.

Trump must be defeated by the people’s vote. If he were to lose on the basis of being prohibited in some states, even with an adequate rationale as Colorado has, it will embolden and further radicalize his base rather than dishearten and deflate their members.

At the end of the day, any nation should succeed, or fail, based on the choices of its citizens, not by attempts to protect the citizens from accessing bad choices as this is.

Plus this is a strategic blunder politically, as the unaccountable and Republican captured SCOTUS will in all likelyhood overturn it, which will take a victory many are celebrating into a victory, enthusiasm boost, and talking point for Trump’s base to uninformed centrist decide on election day voters.

Heresy_generator,
Heresy_generator avatar

[We should ignore the Constitution of the Untied States and make decisions based on fear of Trump's terroristic cult instead]

No we should not.

AllonzeeLV, (edited )

A flawed document too rigid and inflexible for modernity, designed by slave owners who suggested their class be the only class allowed to vote, the smartest of which said it wasn’t meant to be treated as a divine document in perpetuity, designed to govern less people by an order of magnitude at the speed of horse.

It was ahead of its time… a quarter millennium ago.

Also the corrupted SCOTUS decides what the Constitution, Amendments, and laws say and mean, and they’ve been clear it says whatever is convenient to their interests in the moment, without actionable recourse. Thanks for that, glorious founders.

Heresy_generator,
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The 14th Amendment was not designed by slave owners nor has modernity made it obsolete.

AllonzeeLV,

I’ll bet you’re not singing about the infallibilty of our Constitution when it comes to holding the judicial branch accountable to the other branches or the citizenry, but agree to disagree I guess.

DragonTypeWyvern,

The “politics” is that it’s the Constitution.

AllonzeeLV,

The “Constitution” says whatever our corrupt, unaccountable SCOTUS judges says it says, with no appeal or achievable recourse.

They can say whatever it says is the opposite, and that’s the end of it. Thank the glorious founders and their divine constitution for fucking up meaningful checks on the judicial. Welcome to thunderdome.

Tremble,

If trump is kicked off the ballot (rightfully so in my opinion) republicans will continue kicking and screaming and will most likely start kicking off non republicans from ballots in their states for made up reasons.

I don’t care. We shouldn’t break the rules just because republicans are threatening to break even more rules.

I find it hard to believe that republicans are even taken seriously in the media. And unquestioned even…

Viking_Hippie,

I find it hard to believe that republicans are even taken seriously in the media. And unquestioned even

That’s because the mainstream media outlets that take up 90% of the proverbial oxygen are all owned by billionaires and billionaires don’t give a shit about democracy or people who aren’t at least hectomillionaires. Plus responsible journalism doesn’t pay enough for mega-yachts and fleets of private jets.

Jimbabwe,

For what it’s worth, I also urge the Supreme Court to keep Trump off the ballot.

billiam0202,

Somehow, I suspect your opinion is worth the exact same as Colorado’s SoS’s to SCOTUS.

RagingRobot,

This SCROTUS makes me go nuts!

quindraco,

Well, yeah. Now, Maine’s SoS’s stance would be relevant, since in her state, it’s a SoS decision to remove him from the ballot. And the core of this case isn’t Trump being removed - that’s already been litigated. The core is ultimately whether or not Colorado (and by implication Maine and every other state) has the authority to kick someone off the ballot for being an invalid candidate.

If Scotus rules against Colorado, minors and immigrants will be allowed to get on the ballot. Schwarzenegger should run.

034521231,

So you guys really want there to be domestic violence? How can you guys not see the results of what happens next?

Heresy_generator,
Heresy_generator avatar

So you think instead of enforcing the Constitution we should give in to terrorists. How far does that go? Because there's a lot in the 14th Amendment that Trump's terrorist cult will like to see ignored, so if they threaten enough violence do we remove equal protection from non-white people? They'll want due process gone if they get a Republican president, should we give in on that, too?

Are we a country of laws or a country of cowards?

034521231,

How about step 1 you guys actually convict him of "INSURRECTION!!!!!"

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