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Trump appointed half the justices. I see this only going one way.

The Supreme Court will decide if Donald Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots (msn.com)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign. The justices acknowledged the need to reach a decision quickly, as voters will soon begin casting presidential primary ballots across the country. The court agreed to take up Trump's appeal of a case from Colorado stemming from his role in the events that culminated in the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Underscoring the urgency, arguments will be held on Feb. 8, during what is normally a nearly monthlong winter break for the justices. The compressed timeframe could allow the court to produce a decision before Super Tuesday on March 5, when the largest number of delegates are up for grabs in a single day, including in Colorado.
The court will be considering for the first time the meaning and reach of a provision of the 14th Amendment barring some people who “engaged in insurrection” from holding public office. The amendment was adopted in 1868, following the Civil War. It has been so rarely used that the nation's highest court had no previous occasion to interpret it.
 Colorado's Supreme Court, by a 4-3 vote, ruled last month that Trump should not be on the Republican primary ballot. The decision was the first time the 14th Amendment was used to bar a presidential contender from the ballot. Trump is separately appealing to state court a ruling by Main's Democratic Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, that he was ineligible to appear on that state’s ballot over his role in the Capitol attack. Both the Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine secretary of state’s rulings are on hold until the appeals play out.

 
 

@R. Suave  

Retardo Smarmy, as I said earlier a Higher Court will decide.

Not a 19th Russian Studies Student who has no law degree.

Huey » 05 Jan 2024, 7:27 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jan 2024, 7:27 pm

@R. Suave  

Retardo Smarmy, as I said earlier a Higher Court will decide.

Not a 19th Russian Studies Student who has no law degree.

And yet I am consistently correct, whereas the people in whom you place your faith are not.

Z09 » 05 Jan 2024, 7:34 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jan 2024, 7:34 pm

You're a liar

Now you're lying about your record

Just be sure you quote me verbatim, Hole..


 

Z09 » 05 Jan 2024, 7:43 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jan 2024, 7:43 pm

"...consistently correct"..

Christ..
That's funny

I don't see my words, Hole.

Punch » 05 Jan 2024, 7:09 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jan 2024, 7:09 pm

Trump appointed half the justices. I see this only going one way.

The Supreme Court will decide if Donald Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots (msn.com)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign. The justices acknowledged the need to reach a decision quickly, as voters will soon begin casting presidential primary ballots across the country. The court agreed to take up Trump's appeal of a case from Colorado stemming from his role in the events that culminated in the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Underscoring the urgency, arguments will be held on Feb. 8, during what is normally a nearly monthlong winter break for the justices. The compressed timeframe could allow the court to produce a decision before Super Tuesday on March 5, when the largest number of delegates are up for grabs in a single day, including in Colorado.
The court will be considering for the first time the meaning and reach of a provision of the 14th Amendment barring some people who “engaged in insurrection” from holding public office. The amendment was adopted in 1868, following the Civil War. It has been so rarely used that the nation's highest court had no previous occasion to interpret it.
 Colorado's Supreme Court, by a 4-3 vote, ruled last month that Trump should not be on the Republican primary ballot. The decision was the first time the 14th Amendment was used to bar a presidential contender from the ballot. Trump is separately appealing to state court a ruling by Main's Democratic Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, that he was ineligible to appear on that state’s ballot over his role in the Capitol attack. Both the Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine secretary of state’s rulings are on hold until the appeals play out.

Congress already set it aside over 100 years ago.

What’s the next retarded tactic from the left?
 
 

Punch » 05 Jan 2024, 7:09 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jan 2024, 7:09 pm

Trump appointed half the justices. I see this only going one way.

 

1/3rd isn't 1/2.. but regardless, this should be an easy 9-0 decision bitch slapping Colorado and Maine.

 

14th Amendment Section 3

“… But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”


“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each house concurring therein), that all political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of amendments of the Constitution of the United States are hereby removed from all persons whomsoever, except Senators and Representatives of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judicial, military, and naval service of the United States, heads of departments, and foreign ministers of the United States.“ May 22 1872

Z09 » 05 Jan 2024, 7:23 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jan 2024, 7:23 pm

If they follow the law this will likely will be overturned 9-0

  Yep.
It should.