- cross-posted to:
- politics@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- politics@beehaw.org
A judge has rejected three more attempts by former President Donald Trump and the Colorado GOP to shut down a lawsuit seeking to block him from the 2024 presidential ballot in the state based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.”
The flurry of rulings late Friday from Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace are a blow to Trump, who faces candidacy challenges in multiple states stemming from his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection. He still has a pending motion to throw out the Colorado lawsuit, but the case now appears on track for an unprecedented trail this month.
A post-Civil War provision of the 14th Amendment says US officials who take an oath to uphold the Constitution are disqualified from future office if they “engaged in insurrection” or have “given aid or comfort” to insurrectionists. But the Constitution does not spell out how to enforce the ban, and it has been applied only twice since the 1800s.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/trump-eligible-president-abdul-hassan/675669/
Back in 2012 this lawyer thought that the equal protections clause should guarantee immigrants can run for president. So he sued. And none other than Neil Gorsuch argued that yet States have the right to “protect” voters from constitutionally unqualified candidates.
Which is odd, because now they fascist sympathizers are currently arguing that states should let voters decide if Trump is qualified. Hmmm.
In fascism, hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug. As Frank Wilhoit explained about conservatism in general: