It would be hilarious if the three Supreme Court justices Trump nominated voted to keep him from running for reelection.

 

Neither the law or facts get in the way of the despicable mission to get trump no matter what.

 

Which laws of facts are getting in the way?

 

Colorado to include Trump on 2024 primary ballot as state GOP appeals to Supreme Court
The Colorado GOP appealed decision to remove Trump from ballot on Wednesday.

Published December 28, 2023 1:19pm EST

The Colorado secretary of state will include former President Donald Trump on the 2024 Colorado primary ballot after Republicans filed an appeal to the Supreme Court.

On Wednesday, the Colorado GOP filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court after the state Supreme Court's decision to remove Trump from the primary ballot.

Following the appeal, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced that she will include Trump on the primary ballot on the January 5 certification deadline, unless the U.S. Supreme Court affirms the lower court's ruling or declines to take up the case.



They did and they lost.

 

It is getting pretty interesting.


Maine Bars Trump From Ballot as US Supreme Court Weighs State Authority to Block Former President
The decision follows a December ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that removed Trump from the ballot there under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.


December 28, 2023 5:07pm

Donald Trump Scott Olson/Getty Images
Maine’s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Trump remains eligible to continue his campaign.

The decision by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows follows a December ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that booted Trump from the ballot there under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. That decision has been stayed until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether Trump is barred by the Civil War-era provision, which prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office.








The Trump campaign said it would appeal Bellows’ decision to Maine’s state court system, and it is likely that the nation’s highest court will have the final say on whether Trump appears on the ballot there and in the other states.

Bellows found that Trump could no longer run for his prior job because his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol violated Section 3, which bans from office those who “engaged in insurrection.” Bellows made the ruling after some state residents, including a bipartisan group of former lawmakers, challenged Trump’s position on the ballot.

“I do not reach this conclusion lightly,” Bellows wrote in her 34-page decision. “I am mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection.”



The Trump campaign immediately slammed the ruling. “We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter,” campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.

Thursday’s ruling demonstrates the need for the nation’s highest court, which has never ruled on Section 3, to clarify what states can do.

While Maine has just four electoral votes, it’s one of two states to split them. Trump won one of Maine’s electors in 2020, so having him off the ballot there should he emerge as the Republican general election candidate could have outsized implications in a race that is expected to be narrowly decided.




That’s in contrast to Colorado, which Trump lost by 13 percentage points in 2020 and where he wasn’t expected to compete in November if he wins the Republican presidential nomination.

In her decision, Bellows acknowledged that the Supreme Court will probably have the final word but said it was important she did her official duty. That won her praise from a group of prominent Maine voters who filed the petition forcing her to consider the case.

“Secretary Bellows showed great courage in her ruling, and we look forward to helping her defend her judicious and correct decision in court. No elected official is above the law or our constitution, and today’s ruling reaffirms this most important of American principles,” Republican Kimberly Rosen, independent Thomas Saviello and Democrat Ethan Strimling said in a statement.


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...rs-trump-from-2024-primary-ballot-1235776397/

 

SAY IT AGAIN!!!

 

With two interesting wrinkles. The Maine Secretary of State cited Trump's attempts to overthrow the election results, his inciting the J6 insurrectionists, but especially Trump's inaction on calling the insurrectionists off. And there is lots of documented proof of that last one including Trump's own tweets.

And then this puts the Supreme Court in a corner. And a tight one. The Court had lots of weaseling room to come up some pretzel logic of how the Colorado Supreme Court made the wrong decision without having to address if Trump engaged in insurrection or what the 14th amendment really means. But in Maine their laws say its the Secretary of State that has to make the call.

Those two cases are on opposite ends of spectrum. So the Court will have to address the two biggest questions. And what are they going to rule? States don't have "state's rights" after all. On the heels of the Dpbbs derision that will be awfully awkward.

 

Trump is the man!

 

I love Biden economy!

 

Can’t wait for the foolish leftists heads lowing apart when SCOTUS over turns these ridiculous decisions. Maine is worse that Colorado because it’s a single person making the decisions. It’s moronic. The fall out will be so fun…….

 

Thanks Colorado

 

I'll listen. Which laws or facts would get in the way?

 

Just for starters which court has found that trump is criminally guilty of insurrection or rebellion?

You can't because no court has indicted him even.

And yet two courts have ruled he can't be on their ballot because hes guilty of insurrection.

To say nothing of a judge ruling he's guilty of fraud even before the trial started.

You don't have to be a trump supporter to understand just how fucked up that is.

 

They didn't hold trials for the confederate officers that were barred from holding office.

And this is not true. Habba didn't ask for a jury trial. The judgement is exactly what they asked for.

 

The fact that trump wasn't indicted and tried for insurrection isn't proof he wasn't involved and aiding in the insurrection. This was determined to be the case by the court and, in the case of Maine, the secretary of state. Ultimately, I would imagine the SCOTUS will decide the issue for all states to follow.

 

The treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans have a couple scams and are caught with their pants down around their ankles on this. The first scam is a deliberate and repeated misreading of the 14rh amendment. Which does not require someone be convicted of insurrection or even indicted for insurrection for a state to ban someone from the ballot or ever holding elected office again. And the other is these decisions are just being made by partisan political hacks out to get Trump. Legal and Constitutional scholars are actually surprised by how solid and well grounded in law both the Colorado and Main decisions are. They admit the Supreme Court may be able to find their way around them bu it will cost them and expose the Supreme Court as the partisan political hacks

And where they have their pants down around their ankles is screaming state's have the right to outlaw abortion. But states have no right to enforce their own election laws and the Constitution if it goes against their Chosen One Traitor Trump.

 

This is something that has been used in court cases leading up to the J6 committee, the findings of the J6 committee, the Jack Smith indictments, the Colorado courts, and now the Maine Secretary of State. They don't have to look far for evidence Trump engaged in insurrection and/or gave aide and comfort to insurrectionists. They can use Trump's own words.



Trump's own words helped get him booted from Maine ballot: report

Travis Gettys
December 29, 2023 10:43AM ET



NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 09: Former President Donald Trump speaks at the New York Young Republican Club Gala at Cipriani Wall Street on December 09, 2023 in New York City. The New York Young Republican Club held its 111th annual gala with guest speakers that include Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and former President Trump days before he is scheduled to testify as the last witness in his civil fraud trial. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)


Donald Trump's own words captured on video helped get him disqualified from the 2024 primary ballot in Maine, according to a legal expert.

That state became the second, after Colorado, to remove the former president from its March 5 primary ballot over his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows made her decision after viewing video evidence provided by a bipartisan group of state legislators, reported Newsweek.

"[Bellows] based her ruling on a lot of documents, but also YouTube clips, news reports, things that would never pass the bar in normal court," former federal prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN. "She's not a lawyer, by the way. It's a smartly written decision, clearly consulted with lawyers, but this is an unelected — she's chosen by the state legislature. Chosen, elected by the legislature, but not democratically elected."



The plaintiffs also showed video evidence of Trump encouraging his supporters to remove protesters — sometimes with violence — from his campaign rallies going back to early 2016, but Bellows agreed with the former president's attorneys that those comments were too old to be relevant to this challenge.

Bellows paused the ruling that was announced Thursday evening while her decision was appealed, and Honig said he expected the U.S. Supreme Court to eventually weigh in.

"I do think the Supreme Court is going to take this case," Honig said. "I think [yesterday's] ruling makes it even more likely."



https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-maine/

 

Keep fucking with him you idiots.