Current Affairs 2024 POTUS race
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He might not have read it (he isn’t exactly renowned for his love of books) but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t share its sentiments and demagoguery.
That Trump is likely to be the GOP nominee (absent a unlikely Supreme Court ruling re Colorado decision) is genuinely scary
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Well, Colorado keeps it interesting.....but this will clearly get appealed to the US Supreme Court.....
btw - small world: I know one of the justices on the CoSupreme Court (voted with the majority) as he and I both play in various local brass groups. I'll see him this weekend at a couple of gigs - would love to ask about this case, but I know he'll just shake his head and say, "let's play".
Well played Colorado.
tsubaki
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I do wonder about that appeal - I mean, does Trump benefit more from going before the SC where all the Jan 6th stuff is aired in a way he cannot control (and risks losing), or does he allow Colorado to do this and milk it for all the outrage he can?
Sadly, I can't see this holding up, as Trump hasn't been convicted of anything to do with the January 6th insurrection. You can't punish someone on the basis of suspicion alone.
Can they be temporarily withdrawn whilst investigations are ongoing?
tsubaki
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The relevant bit of legislation doesn’t require that someone be convicted.
And yet we will likely watch the “strict constitutionalists” on the court, the ones that believe the 2nd amendment gives the right to own a semiautomatic gun, interpret the 14th amendment in whatever modern fashion that allows Trump to be eligible.
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Let him run again and defeat him again.
It's the only way.
I doubt he'd ever go before the SC. They'd be ruling on Colorados decision, not trumps actions.
The time frame of this could be interesting. Jan 4th seems to be the day they'll make the final state decission.
After that I presume SCOTUS has till March to hear appeals. Or could they try and push it past the primary?
Do other states follow suit?
what a mad country!
Even if he cant get on the Colorado ballet, he'll run again. He doesn't need Colorado.
Every blue state could dump him from the ballot and he'd still run.
All he needs are the red states and a hand full of purple ones that'll never boot him from the ballot.
It would be six months of a donald trump pity party next year as he trys (and likely succeeds) convincing idiots that he's being persecuted.
I am certain he is going to be allowed to run again, whether he is defeated again is another matter.
But why should the law apply to everyone but Donald Trump? He pretty clearly incited an violent insurrection to overturn the last election he was part of, he would happily have stood by as his supporters hanged his own Vice President if it had got him the presidency again.
Al Gore would like a word.
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