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.”
      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
        155·
        1 year 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.

    • PrincessEli@reddthat.com
      251·
      1 year ago

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

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
      192·
      1 year ago

      letting the loser of a free and fair election stoke violence without consequence is bad precedent. enforcing the law is good precedent.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.worldM
        611·
        1 year ago

        Copied from another comment you didn’t read.

        No it’s bad precedent.

        Colorado barely had a majority on the decision, three other states ruled differently and Trump hasn’t been convicted of anything yet in Congress or in court.

        Do we want the pre-election period filled with both sides trying to disqualify the other side’s nominee just because they have a majority in their state’s Supreme Court?

          • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
            67·
            1 year ago

            His point was that Trump hasn’t been convicted yet. Even though he obviously invited an insurrection, legally he hasn’t until he’s convicted.

            If we set this precedent pretty soon Republicans will be flooding Democrats with bullshit “insurrection” allegations to get them off of ballots. If they have enough control in their state’s supreme Court they might even succeed.

    • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
      101·
      1 year ago

      He had his many days in court, with his own appointed justices, was unable to find any evidence of significant election fraud, and still he chose to lie about it anyways. To this day. He tried to subvert the people’s will himself and refused to exercise a peaceful transfer of power, threatening and manipulating state leadership and his vice president to alter the results.

      Just because he was unsuccessful, and he managed to brainwash a large enough group of people with his lies to maybe get elected again and to avoid conviction, doesn’t mean we give him a chance to try again. That is a perfectly fine precedent to set.

      That’s not even counting the voter suppression that a state court probably wouldn’t even consider, and his base absolutely refuses to hear. Encouraging voter intimidation, lying about well-established voting methods that are more likely to be used by the other party in some states, priming his base to reject the results with his “its me or its fraud” rhetoric leading up to the election, daring voter fraud within his own party and his followers to turn out and “stop the count” or “count the votes” wherever the results are turning out of his favor. The way I see it this is just beating him at his own game. He already set the precedent, we are mitigating its consequences.

    • ByteWizard@lemm.ee
      06·
      1 year ago

      Let the voters decide.

      The left has decided after 2016 ‘the voters’ cannot be trusted. So they will rig elections and feel smug about it while committing treason.

      • dtc@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 year ago

        Smells like copium for backing the side of the aisle that can’t generate popular/functional ideas for governing.

  • PrincessEli@reddthat.com
    448·
    1 year ago

    Democrats care about protecting American democracy so much they’ll use every lie and dirty truck in the book to keep people they don’t like off the ballot