By Jim Hแดft Sep. 6, 2023
From The Gateway Pundit
UPDATED on 4th October 2023: https://slaynews.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-effort-block-trump-running-president/
UPDATED on 25th September 2023: https://youtu.be/eZIsQprHKbE?si=mK_hesohuvWb4aD5
UPDATED on 13th September 2023: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/write-republican-presidential-candidate-files-lawsuit-try-keep/
Leaf Blogazine: A precedence has been created by Obama-appointed federal judge Robin Rosenberg in the above caseโฌ๏ธ and these nincompoops still going on at it !!!! There’s no saying what morons we have in America, today !!!
A coalition of six Republicans and unaffiliated Colorado voters, including former state and federal officials, filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from appearing on the stateโs 2024 presidential ballot.
The plaintiffs are represented by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonprofit and โnonpartisanโ watchdog organization, alongside law firms Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC, KBN Law, LLC, and Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchcliff & Murray LLC.
The plaintiffs are Norma Anderson, Michelle Priola, Claudine Cmarada, Krista Kafer, Kathi Wright, and Christopher Castilian.
The case argues that Trump violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies any individual from holding federal office if they have โengaged in insurrection or rebellionโ against the United States.
Donald Trump tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. Before the election, he made plans to cast doubt on and undermine confidence in our nationโs election infrastructure. After the election, he knowingly sought to subvert our Constitution and system of elections through a sustained campaign of lies. His efforts culminated on January 6, 2021, when he incited, exacerbated, and otherwise engaged in a violent insurrection at the United States Capitol by a mob who believed they were following his orders, and refused to protect the Capitol or call off the mob for nearly three hours as the attack unfolded.
Trumpโs efforts to overturn the 2020 election and interfere with the peaceful transfer of power were part of an insurrection against the Constitution of the United States. Because Trump took these actions after he swore an oath to support the Constitution, Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits him from being President and from qualifying for the Colorado ballot for President in 2024โฆ
Racism and white supremacyโthe same virulent ideologies that led to the Civil War and, in its wake, the Fourteenth Amendmentโpervaded Trumpโs insurrection and the movement surrounding it. Ahead of January 6th, Trump and his allies directed their false claims of election fraud at cities with large Black populations, targeting and specifically identifying โurbanโ areas in Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Atlanta. They sought to coerce and intimidate officials in those jurisdictions to invalidate the votes of millions of Black Americans.
Former Colorado House and Senate Majority leader Norma Anderson (R) said in a statement, โSpending 19 years as a state legislator and serving in leadership gave me the opportunity to work across the aisle and to always work to protect the freedoms our Constitution has given us as citizens. I am proud to continue that work by bringing this lawsuit and ensuring the eligibility of candidates on Colorado ballots.โ
Krista Kafer, a conservative columnist for the Denver Post and Republican activist, offered her stance: โAs a longtime Republican who voted for him, I believe Donald Trump disqualified himself from running in 2024 by spreading lies, vilifying election workers, and fomenting an attack on the Capitol.โ
โIn my decade of service in the House of Representatives, I certified multiple presidential elections and saw firsthand the importance of ethics, the rule of law and the peaceful transfer of power in our democracy,โ former Republican member of Congress Claudine (Cmarada) Schneider. โThis lawsuit is crucial to protecting and fortifying those fundamental democratic values, and Iโm honored to be a part of it.โ
This is not the first time that a lawsuit was filed to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot. The Gateway Pundit previously reported that a lawsuit was filed in a federal court seeking to ban President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot for inciting an insurrection.
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by Lawrence A. Caplan, alleges that Trump is constitutionally prohibited from running for president again due to his alleged involvement in the January 6 โinsurrectionโ at the U.S. Capitol.
However, Judge Robin Rosenberg, a US District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, ruled last week that the attorney, Lawrence Caplan, lacked standing to bring the lawsuit.
โPlaintiffs lack standing to challenge Defendantโs qualifications for seeking the Presidency,โ Rosenberg, an Obama appointee wrote, adding that โthe injuries allegedโ from the insurrection on Capitol Hill more than two years ago โare not cognizable and not particular to them.โ
The judge also said that โan individual citizen does not have standing to challenge whether another individual is qualified to hold public office.โ
The Gateway Pundit also reported that Arizona Secretary of State and former cartel lawyer Adrian Fontes was reportedly questioning President Trumpโs eligibility for the 2024 election in Arizona as he faces politicized indictments from the Biden Regime and upcoming trial dates.
Adrian Fontes confirmed he does not have the authority to bar Trump from the ballot.
โNow, the Arizona Supreme Court said that because thereโs no statutory process in federal law to enforce Section 3 of the 14th amendment, you canโt enforce it,โ Fontes said on โThe Gaggleโ podcast by The Arizona Republic.
โThatโs what the Arizona Supreme Court said, so thatโs the state of the law in Arizona. Now, do I agree with that? No, thatโs stupid,โ Fontes whined.
โWhat Iโm saying is Iโm going to follow the law, and the law in Arizona is what the law in Arizona is. Whether I like it or not, is irrelevant,โ he said.
Meanwhile, New Hampshireโs RINO Attorney General John Formella and Secretary of State David Scanlan are also reviewing the legal theory that Trump canโt run for president.
โBoth the Secretary of Stateโs Office and the Attorney Generalโs Office are aware of public discourse regarding the potential applicability of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to the upcoming presidential election cycle, including misinformation asserting or implying that the Secretary of Stateโs Office has already taken a position on or is seeking to take certain action with respect to Donald Trumpโs candidacy for the Republican National Conventionโs nomination for president in the 2024 United States Presidential Election,โ according to the joint statement.
Trump has not been charged with engaging in insurrection or rebellion against the United States.
In a recent social media post, Charlie Kirk, the Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, weighed in on the ongoing debate over former President Donald Trumpโs eligibility to run for office in 2024. He suggested a countermove if Trump is removed from 2024 ballot based on 14th Amendment.
โโLegal scholarsโ are arguing that local elected officials at both the state and county level have the power to unilaterally remove Trump from the ballot on the basis of the 14th AmendmentโWITHOUT even so much as a conviction,โ Kirk wrote.
Kirk argued that if even one โradical Secretary of State or county officialโ attempts to remove Trump from the ballot, the right should be โequally prepared to remove Joe Biden from the ballot
โIf even one radical Secretary of State or county official attempts to remove Trump from the ballot, the right must be equally prepared to remove Joe Biden from the ballot for selling out America and accepting bribes from foreign oligarchs. Remember, under their theory, no conviction is necessary. The counter move must be swift and forceful. There sure are a lot of red counties we could take off the chessboard in 2024,โ Kirk added.
Professor at Harvard Law School Alan Dershowitz also weighed in and said, โItโs ABSURD. The framers of the Constitution would have never tolerated something like that.โ
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