On the same day the Supreme Court makes yet another decision disgracing the American judiciary, another state court judge demonstrates the bravery and principle that rule of law requires. Illinois county circuit court judge has adopted the Colorado Supreme Court’s reasoning, combined with the court’s examination of relevant Illinois election law, to rule that Trump may not appear on the ballot as he is ineligible to serve as President per #14thAmendmentSection3. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/28/politics/illinois-trump-removed-ballot-insurrectionist-ban/index.html#LawFedi
🤔 So Trump claims he hasn't been an "Officer of the United States", who would be amenable to the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment's Section 3, potentially disqualifying him from running for & holding public (presidential) office.
He's freaking wrong!
And he should know damn better. As he's himself officially & publicly been insisting on being treated like an "officer" in court.
Just like now-AG Garland certainly remembers his own time on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which wrote: "President Trump removed the suit to federal court under the federal officer removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1)." in K&D LLC v. Trump Old Post Office LLC and Donald J. Trump.
Even Jefferson Davis, leader of the Confederacy — and his lawyer — knew the insurrection clause in the U.S. Constitution not only disqualified him from holding office but, importantly, that Section III of the Fourteenth Amendment “executes itself” and once that constitutional Rubicon is crossed, disqualification was his “automatic” punishment.
@Brandi_Buchman More on disqualification for insurrection in U.S. history:
Baude & Paulsen explain, that the "officer" reading distorts methodology:
"a reading that renders the document a ‘secret code’ loaded with hidden meanings discernible only by a select priesthood of illuminati is generally an unlikely one.
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Gentle reader, can you seriously imagine that our 19th-century ratifier—an informed, loyal American who had just lived through a brutal war that took more than 600,000 lives for the sole reason that Southern whites would not accept that Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election—would have understood Section 3 to mean that a traitor couldn’t be a Senator, or a Representative, or a governor, or a state legislator, or for that matter a dog-catcher—but that Robert E. Frickin’ Lee could turn his coat one more time, swear he really would support the Constitution this time, and waltz into the White House?
"History will teach us, that … of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their carreer [sic], by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing Demagogues and ending Tyrants."
— Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1 —
"The key to the Founders’ fear of the demagogue was not merely that he might secure high office, but that the means by which he would attain it – appeal to the mob – would allow him to corrupt or overthrow the Republic in order to transform himself into a dictator. The source of the demagogue’s power does not expire if he is expelled from office; so long as he retains the loyalty of the mob, he may return to power.
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Trump was the man against whom the founding generation armed the constitution with the disqualification clause. They would surely think anyone quite mad for suggesting that a president who actively sought the overthrow of democracy could not be disqualified from trying again because the failed plot reached its crescendo too close to the expiration of his term."
The Founders would've found the madmen suggesting, that a president, who actively sought the overthrow of democracy could not be disqualified from trying again in the majority of contemporary Senate "Republicans" & the majority of their House "Republican" accomplices.
Studies of various historical forms of governments & their respective leaders enabled Hamilton & other Founders to identify & even foresee worse & worst examples of self-centered reckless sociopathic ruling figures like Trump, Putin, Stalin, Hitler & other tyrants the empires of whom thankfully were never allowed to make it to eternity.
A construction of Section Three that would nevertheless allow a former President who broke his oath, not only to participate in the government again but to run for and hold the highest office in the land, is flatly unfaithful to the Section’s purpose — Colorado Supreme Court #quotes#quote#Trump#TrumpDisqualified#Insurrectionist#14thAmendmentSection3
@marcelias Words that will forever echo in my head:
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
— Preamble to the United States Declaration of Independence —
A dictatorial Mafia state à la Putin under Trump instead of the United States? No way!
People that are so concerned that #Trump is polling higher than #Biden are blowing things way out of proportion. It isn't even #2024 yet and Trump still has 91 felony counts to face and there are several constitutional court battles going on over his legitimacy to run in the first place.
Besides, #Election#Polls are worthless garbage used to conjure up content that produces an emotional response. In other words, Trump is ahead in the polls because that is what sells right now.
Personal Message:
If you choose to not vote for Biden & Harris or do not vote at all, then you are responsible for what comes next. Trump is not just another candidate. The media and the #Democrats need to stop treating him and any other #MAGA republican like they are regular candidates.
Disqualify all of Trump's co-conspirators inciting & engaging in insurrection against the authority of the United States & the laws thereof, and giving aid & comfort thereto.
So Mike Johnson opposes Obergefell v. Hodges & same-sex marriage, but obviously not sexual assault against more than 25 women, allegedly committed by his personal role model Donald J. Trump.
"The list of women who have publicly made sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump outnumbers the list of officials in his [former so-called] cabinet. Before today, no fewer than 25 women had made such accusations against Trump, ranging from harassment to sexual assault and rape."
When will Mike Johnson introduce legislation in the House to have prayers for grabbing groper Trump in public schools?
@marcelias Updated translation of not only Wisconsin's insurrectionary "GOP":
*** Gang Of Putschists ***
What else but disqualification should the organized subversion of electoral process & infrastructure, including election officials & judiciary earn the criminal network constantly violating constitutional regulations & rules it's deliberately offending & breaking, in its organized rebellion against the authority of the United States?!
@marcelias Making it harder to vote & easier to cheat in elections is the successive "Republican" way to rebel against the authority of the United States & the laws thereof, after their January 6 conspiracy failed.
@marcelias If "Republicans" are scared of an independent, citizen-led redistricting commission, they're simply confessing to be the designated losers in every free & fair election.
And that they're just rigging elections to pretend not to be the losing minority — which they are.
Their continued, almost "traditional" electoral fraud by means of voter suppression, disenfranchisement & gerrymandering, all their racist conspiracy against voters' rights must have legal consequences. It's unacceptable.
Can there be "bipartisanship" with a party of serial, continued electoral fraud? Not at all!
@marcelias 😎 Well, there are appropriate rewards for rebelling against the authority of the United States. Like eg disqualification & reduced congressional representation.
@marcelias 👏👏👏 Congratulations once again! The insurrectionary Confedereds evidently can't let go of running against the walls of the Reconstruction Amendments, their codified derivates & Marc Elias Group.
Wonderful!
@jobsboils@Piousunyn Some of their foot soldiers may certainly be ready to commit atrocities like the Nazis did, but signs of the "GOP" entity's leadership preparing for mass-extermination of racially targeted parts of the population are not visible.
Nonetheless currently there seems to be no parliamentary/congressional "Republican", who should be holding office, due to their evident disloyalty to the constitutional order & their unveiled rebellion against the authority of the United States.
@marcelias Today "GOP" is a lawless, anti-constitutional, anti-democratic & anti-human entity.
Should any lawless, anti-constitutional, anti-democratic & anti-human entity be eligible to hold public offices under the United States or any of its states & territories?
No!
Why? Because the law rules & NOT lawlessness, enemies of the Constitution, U.S. democracy & humanity.
The evil Nazi Apocalypse was a lesson for the free world, that you must never ever allow enemies of democracy to abuse democracy in order to destroy & remove democracy.