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Democrats call for removal of 126 republicans from ballots nationwide
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:41 am
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:41 am
Jonathan Turley issues warning.
Ballot Cleansing: Democrats are Moving to Bar Republicans from Ballots Nationwide
Below is my column in the New York Post on the expans ion of the 14th Amendment theory to attempt to remove Republican candidates for Congress from the ballots. Dozens of Democratic members have already called for the disqualification of up to 126 Republican colleagues under the same sweeping theory. These efforts show how this theory could place this country on a slippery slope to political chaos if not clearly and finally rejected by the Supreme Court.
Here is the column:
As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Repubfenablican Rep. Scott Perry.
It’s only the latest effort targeting congressional candidates as Democrats seek to bar opponents as “insurrectionists” for questioning the election of President Biden.
We have become a nation of Madame Defarges — eagerly knitting names of those to be subject to arbitrary justice.
Former congressional candidate Gene Stilp, who’s previously made headlines by burning MAGA flags with swastikas outside courthouses, filed the challenge.
Using the 14th Amendment to disqualify candidates like Perry is consistent with Stilp’s signature flag-burning stunts.
But what’s chilling is how many support such efforts, including Democratic officeholders from Maine’s Secretary of State to dozens of members of Congress.
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) sought to bar 126 members of Congress under the same theory for challenging the election before Jan. 6, 2021.
Similar legislation from Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) to disqualify members got 63 co-sponsors, all Democrats, including New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman and Ritchie Torres and “Squad” members Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
When Maine’s secretary of state disqualified Trump, three in the state’s congressional delegation — Sens. Angus King (I) and Susan Collins (R) and Rep. Jared Golden (D) — condemned the decision. But others supported the antidemocratic action.
The grounds were virtually identical to those of Stilp. He accuses Perry of supporting challenges to Biden’s election and opposing its certification.
Of course, he ignores Democratic members who sought to block certification of Republican presidents under the very same law with no factual or legal basis.
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) praised the effort then-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) organized to challenge the certification of President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election.
Jan. 6 committee head Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) voted to challenge it in the House.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sought to block certification of the 2016 election result — particularly ironic since he’s a leading voice calling for Trump to be disqualified.
He insisted last week on CNN that the effort to prevent citizens from voting for Trump is the very embodiment of democracy: “If you think about it, of all of the forms of disqualification that we have, the one that disqualifies people for engaging in insurrection is the most democratic because it’s the one where people choose themselves to be disqualified.”
Ballot Cleansing: Democrats are Moving to Bar Republicans from Ballots Nationwide
Below is my column in the New York Post on the expans ion of the 14th Amendment theory to attempt to remove Republican candidates for Congress from the ballots. Dozens of Democratic members have already called for the disqualification of up to 126 Republican colleagues under the same sweeping theory. These efforts show how this theory could place this country on a slippery slope to political chaos if not clearly and finally rejected by the Supreme Court.
Here is the column:
As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Repubfenablican Rep. Scott Perry.
It’s only the latest effort targeting congressional candidates as Democrats seek to bar opponents as “insurrectionists” for questioning the election of President Biden.
We have become a nation of Madame Defarges — eagerly knitting names of those to be subject to arbitrary justice.
Former congressional candidate Gene Stilp, who’s previously made headlines by burning MAGA flags with swastikas outside courthouses, filed the challenge.
Using the 14th Amendment to disqualify candidates like Perry is consistent with Stilp’s signature flag-burning stunts.
But what’s chilling is how many support such efforts, including Democratic officeholders from Maine’s Secretary of State to dozens of members of Congress.
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) sought to bar 126 members of Congress under the same theory for challenging the election before Jan. 6, 2021.
Similar legislation from Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) to disqualify members got 63 co-sponsors, all Democrats, including New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman and Ritchie Torres and “Squad” members Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
When Maine’s secretary of state disqualified Trump, three in the state’s congressional delegation — Sens. Angus King (I) and Susan Collins (R) and Rep. Jared Golden (D) — condemned the decision. But others supported the antidemocratic action.
The grounds were virtually identical to those of Stilp. He accuses Perry of supporting challenges to Biden’s election and opposing its certification.
Of course, he ignores Democratic members who sought to block certification of Republican presidents under the very same law with no factual or legal basis.
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) praised the effort then-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) organized to challenge the certification of President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election.
Jan. 6 committee head Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) voted to challenge it in the House.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sought to block certification of the 2016 election result — particularly ironic since he’s a leading voice calling for Trump to be disqualified.
He insisted last week on CNN that the effort to prevent citizens from voting for Trump is the very embodiment of democracy: “If you think about it, of all of the forms of disqualification that we have, the one that disqualifies people for engaging in insurrection is the most democratic because it’s the one where people choose themselves to be disqualified.”
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:43 am to cajunangelle
The utter and absolute absurdity of this is...dumbfounding. I can only laugh, albeit when it translates to the relative comfort and security that we now enjoy...it's damn scary.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:43 am to cajunangelle
When you can’t win elections fair and square, you have to disqualify the competition and hope you win by default.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:44 am to cajunangelle
Consistent with the Left's view that preventing speech (with threats of or actual violence) = free speech.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:46 am to cajunangelle
The people who hate gun ownership, the police and want to defund the military are pushing for a civil war with the people who own all the guns and support the military and police.
I don’t understand the end game here.
I don’t understand the end game here.
This post was edited on 1/6/24 at 9:46 am
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:46 am to udtiger
Odd they are totally against removing dead people from voter rolls.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:46 am to ShoeBang
Removing political opponents from the ballot...and Republicans are the threat to democracy?
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:46 am to ShoeBang
Continue to build up your stores. The first few days of 2024 are indicative of bad things to come this year.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:46 am to cajunangelle
“Democrats”
“Democracy”
Two words that no longer have ANY commonality with one another anymore.
“Democracy”
Two words that no longer have ANY commonality with one another anymore.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:48 am to RCDfan1950
quote:
The utter and absolute absurdity of this is...dumbfounding. I can only laugh, albeit when it translates to the relative comfort and security that we now enjoy...it's damn scary.
"We must save democracy"
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:48 am to cajunangelle
If they get away with this with Trump, they will do it again and again.
There is no other group as devious and diabolical than the Dem party.
There is no other group as devious and diabolical than the Dem party.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:49 am to cajunangelle
I will repeat myself:
If a democrat wins the white house in 24 there will not be another election in the country
If a democrat wins the white house in 24 there will not be another election in the country
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:49 am to cajunangelle
So full on open Facism. D = Nazi at this point.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:53 am to RCDfan1950
Remember they called Michelle Bachman, Patrick Joseph Buchanan, and Sarah Palin lunatic fringe.
Who is blinded bat shite crazy now?
INB4 SFP babydoll says this isn't what it appears to be. It depends on what the definition if is, is.
Who is blinded bat shite crazy now?
INB4 SFP babydoll says this isn't what it appears to be. It depends on what the definition if is, is.
This post was edited on 1/6/24 at 9:54 am
Posted on 1/6/24 at 9:53 am to cajunangelle
Trump is a threat to our democracy.
So we’re gonna stop democracy altogether
So we’re gonna stop democracy altogether
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:00 am to cajunangelle
This is what the left does just like Communist Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua does there. He charges and arrests candidates that oppose him.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:01 am to cajunangelle
Obama won his first election by getting his opponent removed from the ballot. It’s what dems do.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:03 am to Breesus
quote:
The people who hate gun ownership, the police and want to defund the military are pushing for a civil war with the people who own all the guns and support the military and police.
I don’t understand the end game here.
It's why Obama and his comrades pushed for leftists in the military hierarchy. He wants to create our very own General Hugo Chavez.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:04 am to Auburn1968
quote:
It's why Obama and his comrades pushed for leftists in the military hierarchy
The purge was absolutely real.
Vax mandates and discharges for refusal pretty much cemented the changes.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:06 am to cajunangelle
This is all a case of defining 'insurrection' as anything they want it to mean.
A simple videotape of any GOP politician saying 'The country would be better off without Joe Biden' would equal 'insurrection' and disqualification from running.
A simple videotape of any GOP politician saying 'The country would be better off without Joe Biden' would equal 'insurrection' and disqualification from running.
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