- cross-posted to:
- politics@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- politics@beehaw.org
A judge has rejected three more attempts by former President Donald Trump and the Colorado GOP to shut down a lawsuit seeking to block him from the 2024 presidential ballot in the state based on the 14th Amendmentās āinsurrectionist ban.ā
The flurry of rulings late Friday from Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace are a blow to Trump, who faces candidacy challenges in multiple states stemming from his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection. He still has a pending motion to throw out the Colorado lawsuit, but the case now appears on track for an unprecedented trail this month.
A post-Civil War provision of the 14th Amendment says US officials who take an oath to uphold the Constitution are disqualified from future office if they āengaged in insurrectionā or have āgiven aid or comfortā to insurrectionists. But the Constitution does not spell out how to enforce the ban, and it has been applied only twice since the 1800s.
FTA:
"Wallace also swatted away arguments from the Colorado GOP that state law gives the party, not election officials, ultimate say on which candidates appear on the ballot.
āIf the Party, without any oversight, can choose its preferred candidate, then it could theoretically nominate anyone regardless of their age, citizenship, residency,ā she wrote. āSuch an interpretation is absurd; the Constitution and its requirements for eligibility are not suggestions, left to the political parties to determine at their sole discretion.ā
Such obvious bullshit, and Iāll give you an example from my own home state:
In the 2022 election, our previous governor was term limited and couldnāt run again.
The secretary of state found that the leading candidate did not meet Oregon residency requirements and banned him from the ballot.
Stuff like this is the JOB of the secretary of state. Itās literally what they do.
https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/politics/state/2022/01/06/secretary-state-rules-kristof-ineligible-run-oregon-governor/9119121002/
"The Oregon Constitution requires a candidate for governor to have been a āresident within this stateā for three years prior to the general election.
Evidence reviewed by elections officials showed Kristof was instead a resident of New York until late 2020 or early 2021, having lived in New York for 20 years, maintained a New York driverās license, received mail at his New York address, filed income taxes in New York and, as recently asĀ November 2020, voted in New York."