In a stunning and unprecedented decision, the Colorado Supreme Court removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot, ruling that he isn’t an eligible presidential candidate because of the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.”
    • Neuromancer@lemm.eeOPM
      528·
      11 months ago

      I suspect scotus will overturn it. There have been no charges, much less a conviction that would trigger the clause in the 14th amendment.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
        155·
        11 months ago

        It’s pretty telling how far the left will go, it shows how terrified the establishment is of another Trump presidency.

        It already exposed corruption at the highest levels.

        Funny how the left screams “insurrection” over Jan 6 (where these victims were verbally nvited in by security, we have video of them unlocking doors to let people in, and the lies upon lies told about things such as the only death that day was a murder perpetrated by a security guard), but doesn’t see the hundreds of people storming congress years ago as an insurrection because their side did it.

        • PizzaMan@lemmy.world
          101·
          11 months ago

          Enforcing the 14th amendment is not corruption.

          Attempting to overthrow an election is an insurrection.

        • Neuromancer@lemm.eeOPM
          130·
          11 months ago

          Remember recently when people were storm state capitals? I think Thomas Jefferson said it best.

          I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

          Trump isn’t the problem. He’s the result of problems unsolved.

    • PrincessEli@reddthat.com
      251·
      11 months ago

      According to some judges in Colorado, an insurrection is whenever the democrats get pissy and don’t like you