Former President Trump said Thursday that there would be “chaos and bedlam” if the U.S. Supreme Court would not reverse the state of Colorado’s decision to remove him from primary ballots ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Trump has appealed the ruling and oral arguments in the court are scheduled for Feb. 8.
The state of Maine has made a similar decision.
There, Trump’s appeal is with the state’s Superior Court where the judge in charge stayed the case Wednesday until after the Supreme Court ruling.
Proceeding to remove Trump from the ballot initiated by states or citizens’ lawsuits are based on a Civil War-era constitutional amendment that disqualifies government officials who engaged in insurrection from holding office.
In total, Statista’s Katharina Buchholz, using data from The New York Times, has counted 35 states where efforts to block Trump from the ballot ‘in order to save Democracy’ have been underway.
You will find more infographics at Statista
As of Thursday, the newspaper listed 17 as having been dismissed and, considering the Supreme Court’s makeup, said that it was likely that Trump would appear on ballots after all.
A lawsuit against Trump’s ballot inclusion was just dismissed last week in Washington state.
“This has the potential to tear our nation apart if left unchecked,” Missouri Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said in a statement.
Ashcroft led a group of 11 state election officials (secretaries of state from Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia joined Ashcroft) in submitting an amicus or “friend of the court” brief “in support of neither party,” according to the document.
Ashcroft’s coalition argues in a 26-page document the U.S. Constitution doesn’t empower a state official to disqualify candidates for federal office.
The brief also states historical precedent doesn’t give secretaries of state any power to disqualify a candidate under the Constitution.
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Here’s Where Democracy’s Dying…
Don’t know what the fuck you are on about. Last time I checked, uSA is a Constitutional Republic
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A REPRESENTATIVE Constitutional Republic.
Yet we choose those representatives in a democratic process called voting. A limited democracy to be sure, with checks and balances, but a democracy non the same.
republic
noun
: a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president – merriam-webster
Still a Republic, fag.
Still a democracy too, double fag
Arizona doesn’t have a legally elected Governor.
One can hope she is triple vaxxed.
The Usurper of Arizona, Hobbs is a real piece of work.
She still hasn’t shown up for work.
They have democracy in Russia too. Putin just authorized two people of his choice to run against him!!!
Russia approves 2 candidates for ballot against Putin in March election
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/russia-approves-2-candidates-for-ballot-against-putin-in-march-election-1.6712522
Neither poses a significant challenge to Putin, who has dominated Russian politics since becoming president in 2000. Both candidates’ parties are largely supportive in parliament of legislation backed by Putin’s power-base United Russia party.
Thank goodness
Here’s to the death of democracy, and the enlightenment of “Tyler Durden” and his fucking little “fight club” online Wall Street blowjob rag.
You’ll get over it. Everyone else here already has.
Moron, democracy 🙄 oh yha that’s
What works… dip stick!@
The rainbow sheep are growing feral and their new Judas goat has yet to be appointed.
Dip shits
I’m at a loss for words at why Whitmer (Michigan) is not going after Trump as well.
To busy planning her next kidnapping and boating in the UP with her husband.
Chickens be shitting. Leftists showing their color. They’ll have their naggers out running chimpout in town when the weather gets a little better. Anyone see little Soros’ tweet of the bullet hole in glass next to a hand with an easily countable forty seven dollars in it? Little Soros is squirting a little Soros out his sorass about now.
The only criterion for my vote is this: how much do the shitlibs and psychotic perverts in power hate the individual?