Just heard on the radio: In a 4-3 decision the Colorado State Supreme Court has decided that The Donald cannot be on the primary ballot in Colorado because of the US 14th Amendment. Specifically Section 3.
What impact? This is different than what the district court decided regarding jurisdiction but did uphold that courts’ “decision” that Trump had engaged in insurrection and that what happened on 6 January 2021 was an insurrection. The person announcing this explained that he and many others expected just this: as a Blue State, Colorado and its Nazgul see The Donald as a monstrous evil.
To us here at The Price of Liberty, The Donald may be a monstrous evil indeed, but then, so is Uncle Joe. And they both seem to be guilty of a lot of crimes, constitutional, legal, and moral.
Several of us at TPOL seriously are worried that this may be the death knell of the present American system of government. (We cannot, in good conscience, call this mess a republic and the idea of a democracy is more of a joke than ever.)
Based on reading the decision, Colorado State Government has determined that even if the other 49 States vote for Trump, Colorado will not accept Trump as president. That is, de jure, secession, even if not de facto.
Obviously, more to follow! Be prepared.
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It was a given that sooner or later, the major parties would start using ballot access laws against each other instead of just against third party/independent candidates.
I wouldn’t have guessed ten years ago that the excuse would be insurrection, seeing as how pretty much every president has engaged in more polite forms of that (exercising unconstitutional powers, etc.). But like Nixon said, “I gave them a sword.” And now they’re trying to use it.
Constitutional crises tend to be discomfiting. And we seem to be cursed to live in interesting times.
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Very pertinent points, Tom. The decay rate is increasing, isn’t it?
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