If CO keeps Mango Mussolini off the ballot cuz 14th insurrectionist, will other states follow?

[Stardust Mirror]

And will that force GOP to run someone other than Drumpf? What if MAGAts write his name in anyway - wiil votes not be counted cuz 14th?

[madinmaryland]

1. If that happens, look for the Free-to-be-dumb Caucus to try and get Biden off the ballot in other states.

Not that there would be any evidence to keep Biden of the ballot, but they would try.

[Bucky]

9. Of course. The way to beat a threat to democracy is with more democracy

Trump has to be voted down. Shortcuts won't work. Skipping over the jury part of finding him guilty of insurrection won't work.

[Ocelot II]

2. MN also has a case in the works now.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/12/minnesota-lawsuit-trump-14-amendment

[634-5789]

6. Bastards paywalled me!

[Ocelot II]

7. Try this:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/12/politics/minnesota-trump-14th-amendment-lawsuit/index.html

[634-5789]

16. Thanks!

[Sneederbunk]

3. SCOTUS awaits.

[former9thward]

4. SCOTUS has already tossed one of these cases. Unanimous.

I suspect that will be the fate of others if they reach that far.

[Stardust Mirror]

5. would love to read that decision

any chance of a link, please?

not disputing you, just curious to read their (I predict) twisted logic

[former9thward]

8. There was no written decision.

They refused to hear the case.

Supreme Court declines to consider longshot bid to disqualify Trump from running for president

The Supreme Court said Monday that it will not take up a longshot challenge to Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for president because of his alleged role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

The case was brought by John Anthony Castro, a little-known candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, who sued Trump earlier this year in an effort to disqualify him from running for president and holding the office “given his alleged provision of aid or comfort to the convicted criminals and insurrectionist that violently attacked our United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”

The case was denied without any comment or recorded vote.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/02/politics/donald-trump-fourteenth-amendment-ballot-case-supreme-court/index.html

[Ocelot II]

10. That case was based on standing. A GOP candidate brought the case,

but the lower federal court said he didn't suffer a legal injury. USSC denied cert.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-rebuffs-long-shot-candidates-bid-disqualify-trump-2024-2023-10-02/

This doesn't mean they wouldn't hear a case if the plaintiff can find a basis for standing.

[former9thward]

11. I did not say they would not hear a case.

I predicted in my post that if a case is ever heard by the SC on this issue it will suffer the same fate -- tossed.

[Ocelot II]

12. We'll see. The originalists might actually go for it.

[TexasDem69]

14. Doesn't Trump need to be actually convicted

Before he’s removed from the ballot?

[Ocelot II]

15. No, at least according to Laurence Tribe and Michael Luttig.

The 14th Amendment doesn't refer to criminal conviction as a precondition; Tribe and Luttig say it's self-executing. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/donald-trump-constitutionally-prohibited-presidency/675048/

[brooklynite]

13. They won't so it's moot.