by William Upton
The George Soros-backed ‘Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’ (CREW) is arguing in a Colorado court this week that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election ballot. The judge overseeing the case appears to be as equally radical-left and partisan as CREW itself.
INSURRECTION.
“Four years after taking an oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution as President of the United States… Trump tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, leading to a violent insurrection at the United States Capitol to stop the lawful transfer of power to his successor,” the CREW lawsuit states.
“By instigating this unprecedented assault on the American constitutional order, Trump violated his oath and disqualified himself under the Fourteenth Amendment from holding public office, including the Office of the President.”
During Trump’s presidency, CREW waged a campaign of frivolous lawsuits against the president and those who served his administration. Often, the lawsuits would use tortured interpretations of obscure constitutional provisions in the hopes of finding a ‘silver bullet’ that would remove either Trump himself or his appointees from office. The Soros-backed group’s novel legal arguments failed to sway any judges at the time, but a rigorous effort of “venue shopping” landed CREW a friendly judge in Colorado it appears.
JUDGE SARAH WALLACE, LEFTIST.
Colorado District Judge Sarah B. Wallace, who will hear the case this week, has a history of making partisan-liberal political donations and has openly expressed disdain for former President Donald Trump. Wallace, appointed by a Democrat governor, is a financial backer of the far-left Colorado Turnout Project (CTP) – an organization dedicated to preventing politicians who “refused to condemn the political extremists who stormed the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021″ from holding office. Wallace donated to CTP as recently as last year.
Campaign finance records show Judge Wallace has also made campaign contributions to Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), the Colorado Democrat Party, former Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), and Jamie Harrison a failed Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate in South Carolina who now runs the Democratic National Committee (DNC). CREW, meanwhile, is a member of the Democrat dark money cartel overseen by Arabella Advisors and their network of non-profits that serve as clearing houses for contributions made by far-left foundations and liberal billionaires.
KEEPING TRUMP OFF THE BALLOT.
The 14th Amendment argument being brought by CREW against former President Trump is a novel legal theory that has been met with little enthusiasm by election officials and legal scholars in other states thus far. This past August, New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan brushed aside the idea Trump is disqualified from the ballot by the 14th Amendment. Scanlan said Trump would appear on the New Hampshire ballot along with the other qualifying candidates.
Steven Calabresi, a law professor who co-founded the Federalist Society and the originator of the argument claiming the 14th Amendment disqualifies Trump from the ballot, now says his idea and interpretation of the constitutional provision are wrong.
Calabresi points to the fact that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment specifically disqualifies “officers of the United States” who have taken and betrayed an oath to uphold the Constitution. According to Calabresi, the President or Vice-President are not disqualified under this provision as they are the officials vested by the Constitution to appoint said “officers” and not officers themselves.
Judge Wallace has denied five separate motions by former President Trump’s legal team to dismiss the case so far. The trial, which begins today, is expected to last the entire week. If CREW prevails, it would likely be appealed all of the way to the United States Supreme Court.
First the judge should have recused herself.
Second, the case is Federal in nature and should not be in a state court.
Third, the petitioners are relying on the partisan January 6th report.
Fourth, the radical nature of the state of Colorado will prevent an objective appeal or review by the state supreme court.
The 14th amendment claim is weak on its surface because in order to declare President Trump unable to be on a states ballot or any states ballot for insurrection, he must be first charged and convicted of the Federal statue. An oral declarative statement would not hold up under scrutiny in an unbiased appellate or state supreme court.
The states manage their own election processes within the guidelines set by the U.S. Constitution. The issue in Colorado is the applicability of the Constitution to the Colorado’s election process. Taking the question up in state court is entirely appropriate. It could very well end up in Federal court.
Trump should have been disqualified from holding office again as a result of his second impeachment trial. The question has arisen in Colorado because the Senate failed to do its duty.
Dumbass,
He was acquitted of the lone article, insurrection. How fucking dumb are you?
https://x.com/jyparkway/status/1718821128599154814?s=20
Whether a Former President May Be Indicted and Tried for the Same Offenses for Which He was Impeached by the House and Acquitted by the Senate:
Your opinion is entirely partisan. If Biden were impeached and subsequently acquitted by a Democratic-majority Senate, you would bitch about a rigged criminal justice system.
It is not the intention of the Constitution to allow partisan politics to rise above accountability to the laws of the land.
Anyone questioning this is to be prosecuted?
No one believed it the first time and they would expect us to believe it again after the dismal failure that is biden?
democrats know in a fair and honest election with their cheating in check, they cannot defeat President Trump.
No, that isn’t what happened. Trump’s early lead was a result of tabulating and reporting methodology, and had been discussed and expected for weeks. Steve Bannon explained how this expected lead would be exploited ahead of the election.
“…He’ll never have to go to the voters again…”
Reported votes are tabulated on election night, are you saying what we watched was estimations in 5 states?
You quote Bannon, ok vaxx brain…
Oh yes. And all five states stopped counting votes as if they were choreographed to do so. Then in all five states where President Trump was clearly winning, by morning the democrats had manufactured enough votes to steal the election.
This is what Steve Bannon was saying and had said. greg is reaching up into his ass for something that does not exist.
It took days to steal, when we know the same night who won a nation wide government run lottery, but dont dare question this jack assery.
That’s a ridiculous analogy. Nobody counts lottery tickets. There’s a winning number, and whoever has it claims the prize.
Technology, with strict rules. Dont pretend to be so stoopid.
Poll workers require sleep just like other people. Do you think suspending activities for sleep and resuming them again afterward is suspicious “choreography”?
Please provide me with your state statute that allows “poll” workers to continue with counting and tabulation.
Frankly, you don’t know your ass from a hole in the ground.
Poor greg, bless his heart. He has nothing left for which he can feel good about. His world is crashing in on all sides.
France does paper ballots and they have the results before midnight.
We do not get results until the democrats stop the counting at the proscribed time, assess how many fraudulent ballots they need and then resume the ballot stuffing until they have adequately stolen the election.
STATA FARM ARENA
Please familiarize yourself with why anyone who expected final results on election night was out of touch with reality:
How Long Will Vote Counting Take? Estimates and Deadlines in All 50 States
Comrade Greggie, you really like to evade anything that would prove you are freaking clueless, don’t you?
I didn’t ask for how long it would take to count votes, moron. I asked for your state’s laws on poll workers (Indiana, right?) You have them, Are you too freaking lazy to look up your state’s election law? Seems you are.
Thanks for, once again, proving what a clueless clown you really are.
BTW. why should I trust anything the NYSlimes says especially after their accusation that Israel had bombed a hospital and killed 500 Jew-hating Palestinians?
You’re a waste of my time.
You’re a waste of my time.
You are over the target my friend.
Yep. But then, I’ve know for years what a liar and coward Greg is. He is here for no other reason that he has no other life and his brain has been warped by taking in all the left wing talking points.
Just think what a miserable person he is. You know, like mass killers that could have been stopped had it not been for a renegade gun that automatically shoots people with out human help. IOW, Comrade Greggie is mentally deficient.
I am with you. greg is a sad sack.
You’re all morally and mentally challenged. (See how polite I am?)
It was a scheduled nap time in 5 states!
Straw grasping, at straws everywhere.
Trump’s buddy Bannon explained what was going to happen, and that’s precisely what did happen.
In the days of our Founding Fathers Trump probably would have been hanged.
I can recall some Democrats describing what they had in store. First, Trump would jump out ahead, as if he is winning. Then, all those boxes of “mail in ballots” will be rolled out and Trump’s lead will be reversed. Gee, just like a planned fraud.
Yeah, that was the case. With “mail in ballots” as an excuse, Democrats waited to see how many votes they needed, then rolled out the boxes of bogus votes. You can deny it all you want, but lying about it won’t make the fraud disappear.
They HAVE to do it again. Again, and again, and again.
Well… indict him and try him again. But, to date, he has NOT been convicted of insurrection and was, in fact, cleared, as in NOT GUILTY. There is NO justification for keeping him off of any ballot. Desperate, crybaby, cowardly, gutless lawfare. Maybe if you didn’t rely on election fraud to put incompetent, corrupt, treasonous pedophiles, like Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden.
Totally destroys any impartiality. Courts like this are of third world nature, Russian show trials and Nazi Germany in the 1930’s.
The partisanship is the point. If she wasn’t partisan, she wouldn’t be the judge in this case.
Soros needs to totally lose his American Citizenship and be returned to face War Crime Tials from WW II
All of the other lawsuit against President Trump should be dismissed as well. The American people are seeing what the democrat party has become. It is sad for the democrats who believe in America to have their party become as anti-American as they are now.
Happy Halloween all.
A witness with no credibility for a case with no credibility.
Trump lost the popular vote in 2018. Trump cost the GOP it’s House majority in 2018, the White House in 2020, and their anticipated “Red Wave” in 2022. Apparently the current theory is that an accelerating descent will produce a very high bounce in 2024.
Stupid laws in California L.A. Its illegal to hunt moths in the Streetlights. Chico Theil fine you $500 for setting off a Nuclear Device
The petitioners had taken the case to a federal court where it was refused. So, desperate, the petitioners found a back bencher biased judge to take up the case.
The petitioners cannot make the case about insurrection because President Trump has not been convicted of insurrection. The case is moot.
Utter desperation. Democrats know the magnitude of their failures and disasters assures them a crushing defeat in 2024 (without their prerequisite fraud) unless they can somehow prevent Trump from being on the ballots. Gutless, cowardly Democrats’ only hope is to drag everyone else down to their level in order to appear to be viable.
I guess these idiots missed the news coverage, but Trump was impeached for inciting the January 6th riot… and CLEARED. He was not convicted. So, without a court decision convicting Trump of insurrection, how can he be kicked off the ballot for insurrection? Democrats, the most parasitic people in society, sure can waste other people’s money. Wallace, like the rest of the leftist lawfare mob, is shit. Nothing but shit.
The 14th amendment is a moot point with respect to President Trump returning to the WH.
President Trump must first be convicted of insurrection under the federal statute. The Colorado court is not a federal court firstly and secondly they are not convened to prosecute the statute.
Removing him from the ballot citing insurrection is blatantly unconstitutional.
President Trump offered 10k National Guard. Both pelosi and the DC mayor refused.