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MSNBC

'They were terrified': George Conway unloads on SCOTUS for Trump ballot decision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPF3WNFEWyc

George Conway's reaction to the US Supreme Court's ruling in the Colorado Disqualification Clause case is very different from others I have seen and heard. If you missed this video, it is not too late to benefit from giving it a view.

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#darthtraitor #democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14a #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #georgeconway #jenpsaki #msnbc #supremecourt #trump #trumpinsurrectionist #trumpisweak #trumptraitor #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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Tribe: Supreme Court ruling ‘decides more than it needs to,’ leaves the Constitution '[un]enforceable’

Katie Tur Interviewing Laurence Tribe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQdUSDqPJrw

This is another excellent explanation of the Supreme Court's ruling today in the disqualification case.

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#darthtraitor #democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #katietur #laurencetribe #supremecourt #trump #trumpinsurrectionist #trumpisweak #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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Bombshell court announcement ROCKS 2024 election

Brian Tyler Cohen With Glenn Kirschner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MN2tWUXibk

This may be the best explanation we are going to get of today's Supreme Court ruling on the Constitution's Disqualification Clause.

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#briantylercohen #darthtraitor #democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #glennkirschner #supremecourt #trump #trumpinsurrectionist #trumpisweak #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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SUPREME COURT DISQUALIFICATION DECISION

CNN

Hear what legal expert found ‘curious’ about Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGaa6GbYhrA

In the first part of this video, before it switched to a panel discussion, Norman Eisen addressed two important questions that were left unmentioned in the audio and text I had seen and heard up to this point. 1) The Supreme Court unanimously did not explicitly deny that Trump had engaged in insurrection. 2) The timing of this announcement seems political.

By and large, I do not post CNN videos. The host here said nothing to cause me to rethink this practice.

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#cnn #colorado #darthtraitor #democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #normaneisen #noreisen #traitortrump #trump #trumpisweak #trumptraitor

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As per #MeidasTouchNetwork

#BREAKING

#Illinois judge orders #Trump be removed from primary ballot under the #14thAmendment’s #DisqualificationClause, but pauses the decision to give Trump a short period to appeal. More to come…

'Appalling!': Historians torch Supreme Court's handling of Trump ballot case

Lawrence O'Donnell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSgQU7jthDM

Here we have two eminent American historians, David Blight and Drew Gilpin Faust, discussing how thoroughly Supreme Court justices got the historical part of their deliberations wrong. This was so striking that I commented on it DURING ORAL ARGUMENTS.

This Supreme Court hearing calls to mind a passage in a Sherlock Holmes film. Not sure if it is in the Arthur Conan Doyle original. Holmes was examining an object of deep interest to him, when Dr. Watson walked in. Holmes handed over the item and asked Watson what he observed of it. Watson gave what sounded like a reasonably thorough list of the object's details and then asked, "Have I missed anything?" Sherlock Holmes replied, "Only everything of any importance."

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#arthurconandoyle #conandoyle #davidblight #democrats #donaldtrump #disqualificationclause #drewgilpinfaust #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #lawrenceodonnell #sherlockholmes #supremecourt #trump #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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THE PARABLE OF THE ONE POWER-GRABBING STATE: US SUPREME COURT

MSNBC

Prof. Tribe on Trump ballot case: Colorado was doing its job applying the Constitution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W59pzP7bTXI

This is the best wrap-up of Thursday's Supreme Court proceedings I have heard. It is a Lawrence O'Donnell sort of interview with Lawrence Tribe.

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#democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #donaldtrumptraitor #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #laurencetribe #lawrenceodonnell #msnbc #supremecourt #trump #trumptraitor #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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Borrowing from a Supreme Court observation during Colorado case oral arguments,

Supreme Court ..... that sounds national to me.

So then, if the Supreme Court rules that individual states cannot exclude the traitor, Donald Trump, from ballots, then it is the Supreme Court's duty to exclude Trump from general election ballots.

As Harry Truman might say,

The Buck Stops at the Supreme Court.

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#colorado #democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #supremecourt #trump #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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MSNBC

‘A dismal showing for challengers to Donald Trump’: Neal Katyal on Supreme Court hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvv7Q2KCThI

The three guests here did not entirely agree with one another, except that the Colorado case was not well presented. Well worth watching but you may want to have a box of Kleenex at your side.

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#aliciamenendez #andrewweissmann #colorado #democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #harrylitman #neilkatyal #supremecourt #trump #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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Justice Katanji Brown Jackson''s comments during today's disqualification hearing included "information" that is totally uninformed and ill-advised. This item, which I am posting here for the third time, completely contradicts what she said today: - that the Disqualification Clause only pertains to states and, thus, does not affect a president. This item quotes from original Senate discussions leading up to passage of the Fourteenth Amendment and its Disqualification Clause. Senate debate most clearly did include presidents and vice presidents.

DISQUALIFICATION CLAUSE AS IT RELATES TO PRESIDENTS AND VICE PRESIDENTS

How Donald Trump Disqualified Himself From Holding Office Ever Again

I am placing this here, belatedly, in hopes of making up for a goof I made in an earlier post. It reports on US Senate debate about what ultimately became Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

"This is to go into our Constitution and to stand to govern future insurrection as well as the present; and I should like to have that point definitely understood," Van Winkle said at the time.

It's also worth noting that there was just a single reference in the Senate debate to the fact that the president and vice president were not explicitly mentioned in Howard's draft as "officer(s) of the United States," the way members of Congress and state officials had been itemized in the text. Would the disqualification clause of the amendment not cover the top posts in the executive branch?

"Why did you omit to exclude them?" asked Maryland Democratic Sen. Reverdy Johnson.

Maine's Lot Morrill jumped in to clarify.

"Let me call the Senator's attention to the words 'or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States,'" Morrill said, ending the discussion on that point.

What the framers said about the 14th Amendment's disqualification clause: Analysis

It is being used to challenge Trump in some states from being on the ballot.

By Steven Portnoy
December 29, 2023, 5:54 PM

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/framers-14th-amendments-disqualification-clause-analysis/story?id=105996364

This seems really clear to me. It ought to be equally clear to the United States Supreme Court, unless justices "step up" to serve Donald Trump instead of the American people and the Constitution.

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#democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #katanjibrownjackson #lotmorrill #lotmmorrill #lotmyrickmorrill #supremecourt #trump #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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According to a current Yahoo News headline, only one Supreme Court justice seems open to the idea of excluding Donald Trump from ballots.

Maybe the other eight justices can get a law student to read the Disqualification Clause to them.

How can violently stopping the certification of a presidential election and violently attempting to prevent the peaceful transfer of power NOT be an insurrection?!

What justices are talking, then, is blocking states from keeping Trump off their ballots.

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#democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #supremecourt #trump #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from Trump
Supreme Court case: Democrats

-- USA TODAY headline

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#clarencethomas #colorado #democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #supremecourt #trump #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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I have seen and read MSNBC comments that disqualifying Donald Trump from 2024 ballots (and beyond) is a long shot.

It seems to me this reflects a sense that the current United States Supreme Court is highly partisan and it does not reflect the clear wording of the United States Constitution PLUS the clear content of the original Senate debate of the Fourteenth Amendment.

If the Supreme Court is consistent with its own explanation of the Dobbs decision - that it should be left for the states to decide about forced birth - then disqualification should be a states decision.

Such as Maine and Colorado.

If the Supreme Court does not affirm the Colorado decision or leave the decision to states, generally, then it is every bit as partisan as many people are saying. It will be engaging in election interference to benefit the traitor to our nation, Donald Trump.

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#democrats #disqualificationclause #dobbs #dobbsdecision #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #maine #supremecourt #trump #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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Calling himself "presumptive nominee," Trump tells
Supreme Court to keep him on the ballot

-- USA TODAY headline

The Constitutional principle, in this instance, is all about Donald Trump. Supreme Court justices must rule on the Trump Brand Constitution.

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#colorado #democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #supremecourt #trump #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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TRUMP SUPREME COURT FILING CALLS HIM PRESUMPTIVE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT

Newsweek

Donald Trump's Supreme Court Filing Makes Bold New Statement

Published Feb 05, 2024 at 6:43 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-supreme-court-filing-bold-new-statement-1867126

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#democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenamendment #supremecourt #trump #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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JUSTICE MATTERS

Supreme Court to decide if insurrectionist Trump can return to Oval Office to finish what he started

Glenn Kirschner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKCZ8IESG2I

This should be submitted to the United States Supreme Court as a friend of the court video.

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#democracymatters #democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #glennkirschner #insurrection #trump #trumpinsurrection #trumpinsurrectionist

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@omegaman

CHOOSING NOT TO VOTE

People who plan not to vote are easy to understand. Here are just a few examples.

They are perfectly alright with Republicans making forced birth a national law.

They want to reward the do-nothing US House of Representatives by re-electing its members or even giving them a larger Republican majority to keep the do-nothing going.

They have no problem with the Republican Party, which has lots of members who want to deport Palestinians.

They like the idea of minority religious views being forced on the rest of the country.

They are cool with Republican voter suppression and book bans. Go right ahead.

Gun violence just isn't an issue for them. It is great that the gun lobby is in charge of national policy. We can't have enough battlefield weapons on our streets.

It is just not a problem for rights, such as marriage equality, to be ended by Republicans, no matter how much those rights are supported by an easy majority of Americans.

Illegally electing a Constitutionally disqualified candidate to the presidency doesn't bother them one bit.

The right wing majority on the US Supreme Court can't possibly make wacky enough rulings.

This is just a few of the examples. Please add to the list. People who choose not to vote can easily live with these and countless other consequences of not voting.

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#abortion #bookbans #democrats #disqualificationclause #forcedbirth #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #guncontrol #gunlobby #gunviolence #marriageequality #palestinians #votersuppression #votingrights

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THROW THE BUM OUT!

The Hill

If the conservative justices actually believe in originalism, they must disqualify Trump

by James D. Zirin, opinion contributor - 02/01/24 7:30 AM ET

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4441409-if-the-conservative-justices-actually-believe-in-originalism-they-must-disqualify-trump/

Senators who crafted and debated the Fourteenth Amendment and voters who ratified it spoke plenty clear enough: - Donald Trump is disqualified from holding office ever again.

Donald Trump is a traitor to our nation, a traitor to the American experiment, and a traitor to the American people.

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#democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #trump

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DISQUALIFICATION CLAUSE AS IT RELATES TO PRESIDENTS AND VICE PRESIDENTS

How Donald Trump Disqualified Himself From Holding Office Ever Again

I am placing this here, belatedly, in hopes of making up for a goof I made in an earlier post. It reports on US Senate debate about what ultimately became Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

"This is to go into our Constitution and to stand to govern future insurrection as well as the present; and I should like to have that point definitely understood," Van Winkle said at the time.

It's also worth noting that there was just a single reference in the Senate debate to the fact that the president and vice president were not explicitly mentioned in Howard's draft as "officer(s) of the United States," the way members of Congress and state officials had been itemized in the text. Would the disqualification clause of the amendment not cover the top posts in the executive branch?

"Why did you omit to exclude them?" asked Maryland Democratic Sen. Reverdy Johnson.

Maine's Lot Morrill jumped in to clarify.

"Let me call the Senator's attention to the words 'or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States,'" Morrill said, ending the discussion on that point.

What the framers said about the 14th Amendment's disqualification clause: Analysis

It is being used to challenge Trump in some states from being on the ballot.

By Steven Portnoy
December 29, 2023, 5:54 PM

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/framers-14th-amendments-disqualification-clause-analysis/story?id=105996364

This seems really clear to me. It ought to be equally clear to the United States Supreme Court, unless justices "step up" to serve Donald Trump instead of the American people and the Constitution.

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#democrats #disqualificationclause #donaldtrump #14thamendment #fourteenthamendment #lotmorrill #lotmmorrill #lotmyrickmorrill #supremecourt #trump #unitedstatessupremecourt #ussupremecourt

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American historians file an amicus brief with the supreme court supporting Colorado's removal of Trump from the ballot on the basis of the disqualification clause in the 14th amendment. This is fascinating reading!

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Amici’s interest in this appeal arises from the gravity of the case before the Court and the necessity of grounding any decision in a proper historical understanding of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment. As eminent American historians with expertise in the relevant era, actors, and events, amici are well qualified to assist the Court by establishing the original intent, meaning, and public understanding of the Disqualification Clause

#Insurrection #DisqualificationClause #FourteenthAmendment #SupremeCourt #DonaldTrump #NormaAnderson #ColoradoBallot

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-719/298999/20240129110006501_23-719%20bsac%20American%20Historians%20Final.pdf