• andyburke@fedia.io
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    10 months ago

    How do you mean? The people challenging Trump being on the ballots are Republicans with standing in those jurisdictions.

    I am not offering my opinion on these cases, but I think it’s important to make sure we understand who the plaintiffs are.

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      10 months ago

      the two states that have removed Trump from their ballots are Colorado and Maine, Colorado’s entirely democrat appointed supreme court, and Maine’s democratic secretary of state.

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        10 months ago

        You are saying their rulings go against written law in preference to their party affiliation? If so, I’d be interested in understanding how.

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          10 months ago

          I am saying they are democrats that have removed republican opposition from the next election. This is what republican voters are going to see and its gonna be hard to campaign on democracy itself while setting this precedent.

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            10 months ago

            Do our laws matter or not? The guy has been found by courts to have participated in an insurrection. He lost last time, we all know that. He tried to make it so he stayed in power, we all know that. We are just supposed to pretend that didn’t happen because some people still like him?

            Sorry, not how our county works.

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              10 months ago

              The way it’s supposed to go is he gets arrested immediately after the crime by the DoJ and brought to federal trial. But that didnt happen, for several years.

              This is like someone being charged with illegally possessing a firearm as a felon, but without ever being convicted as a felon. No matter how much you believe they committed a felony, they still have to be found guilty first. In this case it’s someone being barred from running for office as an insurrectionist, without ever being convicted as one.