How They Will Try to Keep Trump Off the Ballot
I might be the first to have noticed this. In just the past couple of days, there appeared a cluster of articles in the MainStream Media on how the Regime will try to keep Trump off the 2024 ballot by using the 14th Amendment:
Aug. 19: “The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again” is by Lawrence Tribe, the Harvard Law professor and mentor to AG Merrick Garland; and J. Michael Luttig, a Republican, former federal judge and former general counsel to Boeing, the arms manufacturer that would be damaged by Trump ending the insane foreign wars, especially the one in Ukraine. It’s in The Atlantic, which now is funded by the Widow Jobs, who’s blowing Steve’s Apple billions on leftist causes.
“Appeasing Donald Trump Won’t Work,” by David French, in the New York Times. He calls himself a conservative and as a lawyer has defended religious liberty. But he’s now just an anti-Trump regime toady. He also cites the 14th Amendment.
“Two conservative scholars say the case isn’t close — the Constitution bars Trump from running again,” by Jackie Calms in the Los Angeles Times. She writes:
“The bottom line is that Donald Trump both ‘engaged in’ ‘insurrection or rebellion’ and gave ‘aid or comfort’ to others engaging in such conduct, within the original meaning of those terms as employed in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,” law professors William Baude, of the University of Chicago, and Michael Stokes Paulsen, of the University of St. Thomas, concluded in their paper, to be published next year in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
Published next year. Right as the primaries are starting. Expect a lot more.
We also have this, again from the NY Times, by Adam Grant, a contributing Opinion writer: “The Worst People Run for Office. It’s Time for a Better Way.” He writes:
On the eve of the first debate of the 2024 presidential race, trust in government is rivaling historic lows. Officials have been working hard to safeguard elections and assure citizens of their integrity. But if we want public office to have integrity, we might be better off eliminating elections altogether.
That is, we must destroy democracy to save it.
As to the 14th Amendment argument, you would need a conviction in a court of law to bar Trump from running. That could be for the federal Jan. 6 case being brought by Garland’s Justice Department, which conveniently would take out the chief rival who could oust from office Garland’s boss, President Biden, in the Nov. 2024 election.
Or it could be a county or city DA bringing similar charges, such as that in Georgia by Fulton County DA Fanni Willis. But there 3,143 counties in the United States!
City DA’s also could get into the act. In Manhattan, DA Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 felonies. Although presumably allegedly paying “hush money” to an alleged grande horizontale doesn’t violate the 14th Amendment, although nowadays who knows.
If this paralogical 14th Amendment theory is acted upon, it likely would be overturned by the Supreme Court. Yet might not be. But what if hundreds of lawsuits are filed by DA’s across this great Republic, soon to be ex-Republic? Even a billionaire like Trump couldn’t afford all the legal fees.
And what if he wins in 2024? Would it be the Democrats who instigate a real “insurrection” on the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2025?