Lot’s of big news today. Sometimes politicians will try quietly issuing a press release late on Friday hoping that over the weekend other news will come up and drown out what they had to say that’s not so great for them. “Take out the trash day” so to speak.” Today was NOT such a day in the news. President Biden kicked off his 2024 campaign season with a forceful speech from Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. (He’d planned to do this tomorrow to coincide with Jan. 6 but there’s a major weather forecast) Dark Brandon showed up more than once to give Trump a political punch in the mouth. Lot’s of commentary, but there was other huge news. It’s not like they had a choice, but SCOTUS officially has decided to hear the appeal (both Trump and the state of Colorado had requested Cert) and that too is huge news that won’t be forgotten over the weekend. It remains to be seen of course what SCOTUS will decide and just as importantly when they’ll issue a ruling. The thing is, as Newsweek reports Trump isn’t the only person who has a big stake in the outcome.
One thing many of us have found frustrating in the aftermath of the 2020 election is the numerous Republicans who supported Trump and helped him promote The Big Lie. Some like Jim Jordan and Scott Perry we know, we know were in contact with Trump. Plenty of others didn’t just keep spouting the lies despite sixty court cases from state to federal (all the way to SCOTUS even) tossing them for lack of evidence. Trump’s own people like Bill Barr on on the record as having told Trump there was no “there” there and their views were widely known.
However many an elected GOPer kept spouting the lies and lining up to try and block the counting of Electoral Votes on Jan. 6, 2021. As Newsweek reports, more than 130 Republicans have faces challenges (unsuccessful) to their eligibility. This mostly took place prior to January 6:
Most of the challenges to Republicans originated before the January 6 riot, when Representative Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat, urged former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to not seat 126 GOP members of Congress who signed onto a lawsuit challenging the electoral votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Biden won those four battleground states narrowly won in 2020.
Then there were all those who, AFTER the riot and the joint session to count the Electoral Votes resumes STILL refused to accept the results of the election. Who tried, right there live on TV to block the acceptance and counting of the votes. It was all part of the larger scheme to allow time for those slates of “alternate Electors” to send different EV tallies. That would in turn deny Biden 270 Electoral Votes and throw the election to the House which in turn, since each state’s Congressional delegation gets one vote allow them to name Trump as President. Sure sound like sedition to me. And again, we have Congress Critters like Jordan who flat out refused to cooperate with the J6 Committee.
Returning to pre-Jan. 6, Pascal wrote a letter to then Speaker Pelosi saying those who would take part in action that would tear apart our government cannot be allowed to serve as Member of Congress. He went on to say:
“These lawsuits seeking to obliterate public confidence in our democratic system by invalidating the clear results of the 2020 presidential election attack the text and spirit of the Constitution, which each Member swears to support and defend, as well as violate the Rules of our House of Representatives, which explicitly forbid Members from committing unbecoming acts that reflect poorly on our chamber.”
Many of these Congress Critters who have been allowed to remain on ballots and/or in office have, like Trump hidden behind “due process” by which they mean no court ruling that would state the events on and surrounding Jan. 6 have ruled what THEY did as illegal, seditious etc. Now, I’m not holding my breath but suppose that SCOTUS winds up ruling that yes, what Trump was part of was insurrectionist. I’m not an attorney and those who are that read this will I hope weigh in but from where I sit if that were to happen it’s a whole new ball game for a lot of people.
Chief Justice Roberts likes to having rulings be narrow in scope so even if the Court rules against Trump the decision might be extremely focused. However, it’s hard to see how even a narrowly focused opinion can’t be used to challenge an awful lot of GOPers. Especially if as I think will happen they take action (or not by refusing to take up an appeal of the DC Circuit’s likely denial of Trump’s immunity claim) they wait until after Trump’s DC trial. All that evidence being introduced in court, challenged by Trump/his lawyers and him still getting convicted puts a whole new spin on things. Especially since as soon as THAT case concludes another half dozen indictments of Trump minions will drop!
Of course, SCOTUS might find some way to ignore the text of the 14th Amendment and issue a made up out of thin air legal argument more contorted than a Cirque de Soleil performer that says “golly gee, you only THINK that’s what the amendment says, but what they REALLY meant to put down in writing was…” That’s more than a little possible. People in me will engage in plenty of speculation between now and the first part of Feb. which it’s been announced that SCOTUS will hear arguments. And then during the time it takes for them to issue a ruling.
In the meantime, I think an awful lot of Republicans and not just on Capitol Hill will be waking up from nightmares about losing their job because SCOTUS gave a greenlight to using the 14th amendment now the way it was used in the time it was enacted!
DailyBeast: Missouri secy of state threatens to remove Trump from ballot. Good luck, junior. No Amendment 14 issue there. The GOP needs to expire. Out of our misery.
Ooh, what a typo that was! The Missouri secretary of state did NOT threaten to remove Trump from the ballot. He threatened to remove Biden. Here is a link to the Daily Beast story you referenced:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/missouri-secretary-of-state-jay-ashcroft-threatens-to-kick-biden-off-ballot
Scott Perry (R-PA) is facing an Amendment 14 suit to bar him from running for reelection..
“Chief Justice Roberts likes to having rulings be narrow in scope so even if the Court rules against Trump the decision might be extremely focused.”
Funny. As I recall the Dobbs case that went before SCOTUS, all Mississippi was asking was to change the existing viability point from 24 weeks to 15 (based on a law passed in 2018). Now, a “narrow” ruling would’ve merely changed the national viability period to 15 weeks, thereby upholding Mississippi’s LAW (that was the point being challenged by the Jackson Women’s Health Organization). Instead, Roberts obviously allowed the majority to write an overly broad ruling that stripped every woman’s right to obtain an abortion–turning what SHOULD have been a private, MEDICAL decision into a purely politically-motivated ideological decision that IGNORES any genuine medical needs or emergencies (the latest decisions, for instance, have actually prioritized the fetus’s existence over the very endangered/threatened life of the pregnant woman).
cool great read
but Denis when we talk politics
and sprouting, maybe understand
how
whispering is done
dude you say sprouting to an Amish girl
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the bruised will fadr
I went back through the article and I saw I’d used the word spouting a couple of times. If my proofread was off and somewhere I wrote “sprouting” I don’t see it but It’s pretty late and I’m admittedly worn out so maybe I’m missing it. Or, perhaps Ursula saw your comment and went in and editing me. I know longer live close enough to Amish country to drive through a community but being “English” other than nodding politely I wouldn’t engage in conversation with any of the Amish unless they initiated it. And even then I’d be careful because it’s a different culture and terms and even words can have very different meanings in different cultures. I remember one of my troop handlers at Camp Pendleton when I was in infantry training four decades ago. He was back “home” after a stint in the UK and he warned us if we ever got stationed there to make an effort to learn THEIR version of the English language or risk winding up in a fight!
and look, I have too, you marry for love don’t laugh my wife was 16 years older than me
her defense blue eyed 6 foot built like a U.S.S Missouri . Never Remarried you just don’t
and look, I have too, you marry for love don’t laugh my wife was 16 years older than me
her defense blue eyed 6 foot built like a U.S.S Missouri . Never Remarried you just don’t
now America we need this conversation
1) leasing consultant in Florida V. Bush
Jonathan Roberts
helping was this Kavenaugh guy
but wait it’s gets better
meow is that a Barrett women who under question doesn’t remember anything under oath, I might lick that.
Your “… Dark Brandon showed up more than once to give Trump a political punch in the mouth…” Love it. Possibly, by extension Dark Brandon was wearing his Winklepickers on, and used them to give Trump a good kick in his small issue pills – knocked Trump’s frayed and fraying sack into the middle of his next week, by the sound of it. Go Joe, go – no prisoners!
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my 5th grade teacher went onto be Oklahoma supervisor of school and I’m pretty good advisor at diagraming sentences
hmmm look everyone what is a prepositional
phrase
she was tough but good
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up the tree
around the house
I love teaching English
I’m compliments
you’re
I see you
I get angry at contractions
but understand in America
your wondering
im native American
proper English
The Rain in Spain, Falls mostly on the Plain
Denis sorry probably correct context I down you but live Rural Oklahoma
we sometimes sell our cattle to Minorities
I like the Amish
but. …
she has a black hoodie
Minis they don’t get much, but Id be careful
I’m reading scriptures you would probably get tore up , women didn’t get. muche back then
oh my God,
I’m sore reading this
Denis
she’s waiting
The Republican party is the party of insurrection and no one that has sailed under that flag is legitimately eligible to hold office in the USA. They have all given aid or comfort to insurrection. They are still in the process of overthrowing the Constitution and that will always be their goal.
There’s a whole lot of people in congress that qualify for removal. Jim Jordan is at the top of that list. Scott Perry and most likely James Comer. The investigators know who they are. What I can’t understand is why these clowns haven’t at least been pulled out and arrested. What in the hell is wrong with everyone. It’s the only specific law in the constitution. The crap 💩 we aren’t supposed to do starts a long way down the dam page. You wouldn’t have Trump holding out for a SCOTUS ruling. He would most likely already be in prison by now. Get your heads out of the sand and stand up for our country. These cupcakes are sitting back laughing at us. Probably sitting there saying, I wonder what dam fool joke of a turd 💩 law they will pull out this week. It’s down right embarrassing to watch.