The right wing Supreme Court has determined that Donald Trump cannot be barred from Presidential primary ballots, despite many conservatives, including former Circuit Court Judge J. Michael Luttig among many others, stating that his inciting of the US Capitol Insurrection of January 6, 2021 violated the 14th Amendment, Section Three.
The decision was that it is up to Congress to bar anyone from running for President, not individual state governments.
In so doing, the decision demonstrated a bitterly divided Court, as the four women on the Court, three Democrats and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, while part of an unanimous vote, made clear their discomfort with the issue of Donald Trump being able to avoid responsibility for his actions on January 6.
If Trump had been removed from the ballot in Colorado, Maine and Illinois, it would have led to further incitement by Trump on the basis that he was being denied the right to be judged by the American people.
So the understanding is that ultimately it is up to the American people and their voting to repudiate this Insurrectionist by reelecting Joe Biden in November!
The Supreme Court has lost all credibility, and its public opinion rating is an all time low, with particularly two of its members—Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito—being seen as corrupt and personally obnoxious—and the Court being the most right wing since the early 1930s.
Rustbelt and I had to change our phone number within the past 4 years. The new phone number we have must have belonged to someone who voted Republican, because we get robocalls from Republican politicians. Today we got a robocall from Trump. Ugh!
So far, Trump is winning the Republican primaries. I would not be too surprised if Haley drops out after tonight.
You were right. Nikki Haley is dropping out today. Any bets on how quickly she kisses King Donald’s ring?
Krysten Sinema is retiring at the end of her term this year.
I bet she kisses it after a couple of days.