Giving The Insurrectionist The Significant Finger

Two Conservative Law Scholars Conclude That Trump's Role---Leading to the Jan 6 Inrrection---makes him ineligible to hold government office


The professors are active members of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, and proponents of originalism, the method of interpretation that seeks to determine the Constitution’s original meaning.nn
they wrote that the original meaning of the 14th Amendment makes Donald Trump ineligible to hold government office.

“It is unquestionably fair to say that Trump ‘engaged in’ the Jan. 6 insurrection through both his actions and his inaction,”, according to the two conservative scholars.

wrote that the original meaning of the 14th Amendment makes Donald Trump ineligible to hold government office.









Prominent conservative legal scholars are increasingly raising a constitutional argument that 2024 Republican candidate Trump
should be barred from the presidency because of his actions to overturn the previous presidential election result.

 

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https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/trump-2024-ballot-18275678.php

Couy Griffin was removed as a commissioner in Otero County, N.M., and barred from seeking future office by a state judge in September after being convicted of a federal misdemeanor for entering the Capitol during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Griffin, co-founder of a group called Cowboys for Trump, aided in the attempted insurrection by “joining the mob and trespassing on restricted Capitol grounds,” said Francis Mathew, a judge in the state’s First Judicial District.

Griffin’s case shows that no federal insurrection charge or congressional vote is needed to prohibit Trump from running for president, said Donald Sherman, executive vice president and chief counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, which filed the case against Griffin. He said a half-dozen former Confederate officials were disqualified from office in similar cases after the Civil War.

“The indictment is further proof of what the Jan. 6 (congressional) committee laid out and what we saw with our own eyes and ears: that Donald Trump incited and engaged in an insurrection against the Constitution of the United States by trying to overturn a free and fair election,”​

 

Conservative Judge Michael Luttig and Law Professor Laurence Tribe make the case for Trump’s disqualification from public office

Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is also known as the “disqualification clause.” It’s only two sentences long but it could doom Trump’s bid to return to the White House.
The disqualification clause “forbids the former president from holding the office of the presidency again because of his conduct in and around January 6, 2021,” says Judge Luttig. And as Tribe points out,

 

after the weakest Speaker of the House ever was fired, the insurrectionst-in-chief endorsed Jerk Jordan, allegedly a co-conspirator to the 6 Jan insurrection, to be the next speaker.

But the House Republicans voted for the Jerk's competitor; Scalise secures GOP Speaker nomination




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a resounding FU to the insurrectionists !

 

Iowa’s Republican Governor to Back DeSantis in GOP Race, Snubbing Trump

Kim Reynolds will endorse DeSantis for the Republican presidential nomination at a rally in Des Moines on Monday,
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Trump’s 40 Wall St. Loan Transferred to Special Servicer​

The mortgage on the trust-fund baby’s Manhattan tower at 40 Wall St. has been transferred to a special servicer.​

A New York judge had issued an order earlier to dissolve some companies owned by Trump. That was temporarily delayed last month by an appellate judge as the civil fraud trial continues in Manhattan.

The mortgage on 40 Wall St. has a 3.67% coupon and matures in July 2025, according to loan documents. The tower’s occupancy rate dropped to 77% as of June 30 from 98% when the loan originated in 2015.

 

Anti-Donald Trump Mailers Sent Out by Top Republican Donor​

A damning anti-Donald Trump leaflet has been distributed by Americans for Prosperity, one of the most influential conservative organizations in the U.S., which is urging Republican voters to choose an "electable" alternative to the embattled former president.

Americans for Prosperity, also known as AFP, is a libertarian conservative political advocacy group affiliated with brothers Charles Koch and the late David Koch, who died in 2019. The family is among the richest in the U.S., and the two brothers together built an important network of conservative and libertarian donors.

While Charles Koch and AFP have never been supportive of Trump—in 2016, AFP sponsored training to counteract the rise of Trumpism within the GOP and the conservative movement—the group had previously never gone as far as to actively campaign against him, as it is doing now.

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Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from 2024 ballot
based on 14th Amendment’s ‘insurrectionist ban’

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In a stunning and unprecedented decision, the Colorado Supreme Court removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot, ruling that he isn’t an eligible presidential candidate
because of the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.”

The ruling was 4-3.

The state Supreme Court decision only applies to Colorado but the historic ruling will roil the 2024 presidential campaign. It tees up an appeal to the US Supreme Court, which could settle
the matter for the entire nation. Colorado election officials have said the matter needs to be settled by January 5, which is the statutory deadline to set the list of candidates for the GOP primary.