Frank wrote on Dec 21
st, 2023 at 11:18am:
Aussie wrote on Dec 20
th, 2023 at 11:31am:
Trumpty ruled ineligible.
Appeals to come, you bet.
Link. The Supreme Court will almost certainly strike down a decision that has brought shame to the small state’s judiciary, which has a majority of judges appointed by former Democratic governor now senator John Hickenlooper.
“This is what an actual attack on democracy looks like: in an un-American, unconstitutional, and unprecedented decision, a cabal of Democrat judges are barring Trump from the ballot in Colorado,” said Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on social media soon after the decision, launching what will become a major line of political attack for the GOP.
Democrats have now also ‘weaponised the US constitution’ to strike a leading political candidate off the ballot for alleged crimes that haven’t even been litigated, denying Americans the right even to vote for him.
This will become a huge political error for the ruling party, likely one only to increase Donald Trump’s support further.
Democrats and their backers in the media must soon realise the more desperate and extreme their attempts to stop Trump, the more ammunition they give the former president to claim he’s persecuted out of all proportion to what he actually did.
A second Trump presidency would be very far from ideal. But if that’s what the people want, that’s democracy.
ADAM CREIGHTON WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
Oh, old boy, so unfair!
If America was
any other country, there is no way a guy who told a crowd to storm the parliament and go wild would even be eligible to stand, never mind run.
His current criminal charges would prevent him running for a seat under our own constitution, never mind various party policies. Your DL could not even stand for the Bankstown Local Council, never mind PM.
The US constitution doesn't even bar criminals. DL has to have committed
insurrection, which as ruled in Arizona, he has.
The Supreme Court will be required to take this ruling into account. It's not going to be easy for Clarence Thomas to pocket a week at Bedminster and a dinner with the big fella in return. It's not going to be easy for Amy Coney Barrett to accept the promise of an executive order on trannies in the military or whatever other weird Opus Dei deal she tries to make in return.
Those Supreme Court judges are going to be forced to lay their cards on the table. If I was them, I'd be wanting this one sent straight back to Arizona to sort out, but alas, the stakes are way too high.
The Arizona ruling won't stop there. The swing states are now all open for business, depending on their respective rules.
Sure it would be luverly to see your DL get done in an election fair and square, but he's done the crime, he needs to do the time. By the rules of Arizona, he's not fit to run.
Rule of law, innit.