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Trump Disqualification: Supreme Court Finds Constitution Inconvenient
Feb 16 2024There has never been any doubt about how the Supreme Court would rule in the Colorado case in which its highest court took Donald Trump off the ballot for engaging in insurrection January 6, 2021. We took up the Colorado decision and the controversy that swirled around it in December and said
"It is foregone that the Supreme Court would not dare disqualify Trump, not after infamously deciding who should be president in 2000's Bush v. Gore."
It may be your preference –simply to let the people vote – but first it should not pass unnoticed how political the Court was in order to wriggle free of the unequivocal language of the Fourteenth amendment.
Let's go through a few of the exchanges in which it seemed that each justice had been assigned a role to find loopholes for why the amendment does not apply to Donald Trump.
offices and officersRemarkably, the highest court in the land tried to make the case that Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment does not apply to the former president because "president" is not specified in… Read More »