{"id":56353,"date":"2023-12-21T00:08:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T00:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56353"},"modified":"2023-12-21T00:08:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T00:08:28","slug":"insurrection-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56353","title":{"rendered":"Colo. court invokes 14th … wow!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Colorado Supreme Court has shown judicial courage that appears to defy precedent.<\/p>\n

It has ruled that Donald Trump cannot run for the Republican presidential nomination in that state’s primary because he engaged in an insurrection against the U.S. government on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n

The Constitution’s 14th Amendment says anyone who does such a thing cannot serve in public office. It doesn’t say a thing about “due process,” or “trial by jury,” or a “conviction” of a crime. The Colorado court said, in effect, that the amendment speaks clearly and loudly enough to disqualify the former POTUS from seeking the GOP nomination in Colorado.<\/p>\n

I normally would cheer this decision and declare victory in the fight to keep Trump out of the White House. Except for this caveat.<\/p>\n

Trump is going to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is packed with a 6-3 super-conservative majority. Three justices were nominated by Trump, so it is quite possible they will vote to overrule the Colorado decision; throw in similar votes from Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Chief John Roberts and then, well … there you have it.<\/p>\n

I am left to hope that a couple of those conservatives might be able to break away from their political loyalty and read the 14th Amendment carefully. Then they can assess that what Trump did on 1\/6 qualifies as an incitement of the attack that ensued that day.<\/p>\n

Yes, I know. It’s a faint hope … but it’s all I have.<\/p>\n\n

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The Colorado Supreme Court has shown judicial courage that appears to defy precedent. It has ruled that Donald Trump cannot run for the Republican presidential nomination in that state’s primary because he engaged in an insurrection against the U.S. government on Jan. 6, 2021. The Constitution’s 14th Amendment says anyone who does such a thing … Continue reading Colo. court invokes 14th … wow!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[29,2280,7419,6363],"class_list":["post-56353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","tag-14th-amendment","tag-insurrection","tag-maga","tag-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56355,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56353\/revisions\/56355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}