Good morning Zoomers and make it a great Election Day!
Here’s some good news:
If Trump officially announces his candidacy next week in Mar-A-Lardo as planned the governmental watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington will sue to prevent him from doing so:
“When Donald Trump announces he’s running for the presidency, as he’s expected to do, a watchdog group plans to file a challenge under the 14th Amendment, which bars reelection of officials who engaged in or supported an insurrection.
“The evidence that Trump engaged in insurrection is overwhelming,” Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said in a statement last week. “We are ready, willing and able to take action to make sure the Constitution is upheld and Trump is prevented from holding office.”
Well, yeah, the idiot is on video inciting the crowd that stormed the Capitol and he has admitted doing so numerous times at his hate fests.
“Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, passed after the Civil War, bars any officials who have taken an oath of office to defend the government from reelection if they “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the government — or have “given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
CREW sent a letter to Trump on Thursday alerting him to the planned challenge if he announces his candidacy for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
“CREW believes you are barred from holding office Under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment because you engaged in insurrection against the government you swore to defend,” states the letter. “By summoning a violent mob to disrupt the transition of presidential power mandated by the Constitution after having sworn to defend the same, you made yourself ineligible to hold public office again.”
This suit may or may not accomplish it’s stated goal of preventing a drumpf candidacy, but it sends an important signal to the ever litigious sh**heel that we who love this Country can be just as suit happy as he is:
“Though a similar action by a group of voters failed earlier this year to block Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) run for reelection, a challenge by CREW and other organizations succeeded against an official in New Mexico in September.
A judge in that state ruled in response to a lawsuit by CREW and others that Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin be removed from office, noting the attack on the U.S. Capitol was an insurrection and that Griffin’s participation in it disqualified him under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.“
So, go ahead and announce, punk, make CREW’s day.
Awesome!! Oh, I SO hope this happens. Drumpf needs to behind bars, never to be seen again….
Also, the 22nd Amendment, which forbids running after the second term…if he’s claiming he won and is legit president now, then it’s his second term and he can’t run again.
Well, there’s some legal issues in play. The primary one would be that since Trump was not sworn (or, resworn) into office on Jan 20, 2021, he hasn’t served a second term. His claims have absolutely no bearing on the matter.
The 14th Amendment argument has a much stronger foundation since Trump is on record (in MANY places) offering his support for the insurrectionists.
even right now, he’s been saying the arrested ones should all be released and given an apology from the government!
If the scum win the house, no Democrat should respond to any subpoena from a Republican. They should make the case in court that the Republicans are insurrectionist and do not legitimately hold their office. File the suite in DC and appeal it all the way up to the SC. If they win, the Federal marshals should go onto the House floor and arrest them for impersonating a federal official.
Walter, I like your style!