Clark also alleges that #NathanWade "obviously lied" (eh hem, mr. attorney, you require strong corroborating proof to establish perjury not just an “obviously”) under oath.
Manny Arora is an atty who reps defendant-turned-witness #KennethChesebro.
McAfee seemed unlikely to allow new evidence last wk, it’s gone on long enough & the defense (who are acting like prosecution) ought to have submitted all relevant evidence at the start or at least the initial stages.
#FultonCounty defendant David Shafer w/a new witness, CobbCounty co-chief dpy DA Cindi Lee Yeager, whom he says had convos w/ #TerrenceBradley between 8/23-1/24. Says she can corroborate that DA #FaniWillis & #NathanWade were in a relationship earlier than acknowledged.
In a relatively brief, 13 pg opinion, accompanied by one concurrence from Justice #AmyConeyBarrett & another from the 3 #liberals on the bench, the court decided that the #Constitution leaves the question of #Trump’s disqualification to #Congress. [bullshit]
“Responsibility for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders & candidates rests w/Congress & not the States,” the Court ruled.
The ruling brings one of the most prominent efforts to hold #Trump accountable for his attempt to stay in #power after losing the #2020election to an end. #SCOTUS, in oral arguments & in its Monday opinion, went out of its way to dodge the question of whether that attempt — which culminated in the #Jan6 storming of #Congress — constituted an #insurrection.
Instead, the opinion focuses on a threshold question which all but ensures that the #Disqualification Clause will remain a dead letter, at least as applied to #Trump’s 2020 #coup attempt. The justices focused instead on whose job it is to enforce §3 of the #14thAmendment, neatly excluding themselves from the equation. Instead, they kicked the issue of who should bar those who have taken an oath to the #Constitution & then engaged in #insurrection from holding office to #Congress.
In so doing, the Court set up a new rule which extends beyond #Trump: that #Congress, & not the states, is responsible for enforcing #disqualification against federal officeholders & candidates. To do that, the majority held, Congress MUST act.
Totally disqualifying for her. Think of all the time #Jan6Committee, #Muller, #JackSmith, etc, has invested. The $$$ spent on lawyers and investigations. And FINALLY, the accountability that’s finally being brought for all the people who demand it. And she’s promising to just wipe this all away!!!! Regardless of what she says she’ll do as President, she’s still whimpering for #DonTheCon’s approval. #DISQUALIFICATION#USAwithoutGOP
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?
“It’s the #Constitution of the #UnitedStates that’s disqualifying the former president from higher office …. It’s not President #JoeBiden, it’s not the #Democrats, it’s not the anti-Trumpers—it’s the Constitution of the United States.”
Engaging in insurrection triggers section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Once the #colorado state judge found Trump engaged in #insurrection the #disqualification is triggered.
#trump never presented a case in Colorado arguing he did not engage in insurrection .🤷🏿♀️ #J6 was a crime and the former POTUS instigated it. There is finally a reckoning. Other states will follow.
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado judge overseeing the first significant lawsuit to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot on Friday issued a protective order prohibiting threats and intimidation in the case, saying the safety of those involved — including herself and her staff — was...
After urging by conservative talk-show host Charlie Kirk during his podcast on Monday, supporters of the former president inundated New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan’s office with phone calls to pressure Scanlan to keep the GOP front-runner’s name on the ballot for New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation...
QUICK SUMMARY: PREVAILING VIEW OF THE MOST RESPECTED CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL #CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLARS IS THAT #TRUMP IS DISQUALIFIED, RIGHT NOW, TO BE ON THE BALLOT IN ANY STATE, VIA #FourteenthAmendment.
Whether he's convicted of any crime=irrelevant. He's as unqualified as if he were, say, born in Africa.
"The attack on the Capitol was not a spontaneous event. It was the culmination of a scheme by Trump and his allies to use lies, intimidation, coercion and ultimately violence to keep Trump in office.
"“Donald #Trump is the living embodiment of the threat that the Fourteenth Amendment’s framers sought to protect American #democracy against when they barred constitutional oath-breakers from office.”
Like other constitutional qualifications... Section 3 is enforceable through civil #lawsuits challenging a candidate’s eligibility to hold office...
[News - Colorado] Judge overseeing case to remove Trump from ballot agrees to order banning threats and intimidation (apnews.com)
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado judge overseeing the first significant lawsuit to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot on Friday issued a protective order prohibiting threats and intimidation in the case, saying the safety of those involved — including herself and her staff — was...
[Opinion Analysis] The 14th Amendment plan to disqualify Trump, explained (www.bbc.com)
The Trump campaign has accused advocates of the legal theory of 'stretching the law beyond recognition'...
[News] Longshot Republican presidential candidate files lawsuit to disqualify Trump from N.H. primary - The Boston Globe (www.bostonglobe.com)
After urging by conservative talk-show host Charlie Kirk during his podcast on Monday, supporters of the former president inundated New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan’s office with phone calls to pressure Scanlan to keep the GOP front-runner’s name on the ballot for New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation...