https://www.axios.com/2023/12/19/trump-colorado-ballot-2024-supreme-court
In an unprecedented 213-page decision, 4 to 3 (still reading at the time of this post), the Colorado state Supreme Court found that Trump engaged in insurrection and is barred from running for President of the United States of America because he does not meet the eligibility requirements delineated in the 14th amendment to the Constitution.
This constitutes a judicial overreach. The history of the 14th Amendment is dubious because it was ratified during Reconstruction, and the Southern states were NOT adequately represented in its passing. Moreover, even if we accept this amendment at face value, it states, “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” Not a court! Furthermore, the president’s office IS NOT enumerated as an office barred by the amendment!!!
Updates:
Colorado will have Trump on the ballot… Unless… the SCOTUS finds Trump ineligible OR declines to pick up the case!
https://www.axios.com/2023/12/20/congress-trump-colorado-supreme-court-2024
“There is no way this holds,” one House Republican told Axios. “There is no way the 14th Amendment was intended to be applied in this way.”
14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment14.html
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
From the Trump Campaign:
“After a State Supreme Court of judges ALL appointed by Democrats just ruled to REMOVE my name from the 2024 ballot, I obviously have a lot to say, but I want you to know that it all comes from the heart.
Today marks the single greatest constitutional travesty in the history of our Free Republic…
I woke up this morning with my name no longer permitted to appear on a presidential ballot in a key Super Tuesday state in what was once the FREEST country in the world.
And by the end of the day, I will have had to submit my legal response to the SUPREME COURT for the D.C. Witch Hunt after Crooked Joe’s DOJ requested an immediate ruling on my right to presidential immunity.
But I want to make one thing abundantly clear…
All of these witch hunts – the ELECTION INTERFERENCE – are nothing more than the ruling party and sitting president attempting to stay in power against the will of voters like YOU.
This is exactly how dictatorships are born!
Right before our very eyes, Crooked Joe and his accomplices are transforming our once great nation into a Marxist Third World country more akin to Stalinist Russia or Maoist China.
Their lies, phony indictments, my MUGSHOT, and these sham trials were never about truth or justice…
…They’ve only ever been about FEAR.
The fear that if you speak up and be a voice for the forgotten, hardworking men and women of our country, then YOU too could be JAILED for life as an innocent man.
But I am writing to you now – even on a day as dark as today – to let you know that their fear pales in comparison to OUR HOPE.
The Left wants to rob you of your joy, your faith, and your belief in an America made GREAT AGAIN!
But they can’t – and it drives them crazy!
Because the truth is: hope costs you nothing.
So, as we prepare to fight back against BOTH this unlawful ballot ruling and the D.C. Witch Hunt at the Supreme Court, I ask that you NEVER give up your hope…
…And, in turn, I give you my word: I will NEVER, EVER SURRENDER our country!
If you’re struggling right now – especially right before Christmas – due to the crooks, thugs, and fools currently destroying our country, then I want you stop reading here, and please don’t even think about donating. I mean it! I always want you to take care of your family and yourself first.
If you’re struggling right now – especially right before Christmas – due to the crooks, thugs, and fools currently destroying our country, then I want you stop reading here, and please don’t even think about donating. I mean it! I always want you to take care of your family and yourself first.
But if you can, please make a contribution of any amount at this critical hour to peacefully DEFEND our movement and YOUR VOTE from the never-ending witch hunts – and together, we will WIN BACK the White House and SAVE AMERICA!
Thank you, God bless you, and NEVER SURRENDER!”