Donald Trump has been slandered and libeled thousands of times.
Each time a news reporter, media commentator, or judge refers to Trump as an “insurrectionist,” or claims he’s guilty of “insurrection,” it’s another blatant case of defamation. Same with the other January 6 attendees and participants.
The new year has barely even started yet, and the American 2024 election cycle is already absurd. It is unlike any such cycle I have ever seen. Odd things are happening that would have been unthinkable just one or two elections ago.
Among the latest, most absurd ingredients in this increasingly bitter-tasting election soup, is a concerted effort to boot Donald Trump off the ballot in several states.
All these efforts will eventually fail, but the very fact that state officials are trying to ban a presidential candidate they don’t like paints a grim picture of desperation. It lays bare a political establishment whose only reason to get out of bed in the morning is to stop Trump from being elected president again.
The Colorado secretary of state will include former President Donald Trump on the 2024 Colorado primary ballot after Republicans filed an appeal to the Supreme Court.
On Wednesday, the Colorado GOP filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court after the state Supreme Court’s decision to remove Trump from the primary ballot.
Maine Joins Colorado in Finding Trump Ineligible for Primary Ballot
Maine’s top election official on Thursday barred Donald J. Trump from the state’s primary election ballot, the second state to block the former president’s bid for re-election based on claims that his efforts to remain in power after the 2020 election rendered him ineligible.
Hours later, her counterpart in California announced that Mr. Trump would remain on the ballot in the nation’s most populous state, where election officials have limited power to remove candidates.
h/t Mauser
The Michigan supreme court sided with a lower appeals court finding that Donald Trump could remain on state ballots despite accusations the former president violated the 14th Amendment to the Constitution by engaging “in insurrection or rebellion.”
“At the moment, the only event about to occur is the presidential primary election. But as explained, whether Trump is disqualified is irrelevant to his placement on that particular ballot,” the Michigan court of appeals earlier ruled dismissing the case against Trump.
You no doubt saw the news that the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump cannot be on the ballot because he attempted insurrection on January 6.
You might have paid little attention to it because you heard that the US Supreme Court would overrule the decision, and the holidays were coming up.
But we should all pay attention, no matter your feelings about Trump, because what is at stake is nothing less than our democracy itself.
It is one minute to midnight for American liberals. For them, the stakes in the 2024 presidential election are no less than the survival of democracy. The Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling last week that Donald Trump is ineligible to run for the presidency because he supported an insurrection is very unlikely to stand, but it reflects the view of millions of Americans that the threat posed by the former president is both monstrous and unprecedented. Are they right?
WASHINGTON — Steering clear of a political firestorm for now, the Supreme Court said Friday it would not immediately decide the key question of whether Donald Trump has broad immunity for actions he took as president challenging his 2020 election loss.
The court denied without comment special counsel Jack Smith’s request asking the justices to circumvent the normal appeals court process and quickly decide the question, which looms large in Trump’s prosecution in Washington over allegations of election interference.
Donald Trump was barred from appearing on Colorado’s presidential primary ballot next year, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The court determined the 77-year-old former president was ineligible for the White House, citing the US Constitution’s insurrection clause, which led to his removal from the ballot.
It’s the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14 Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate.
Some Democrats wish the worst for former President Donald Trump, even though his presidency successfully created prosperity for the nation’s citizens.
This Christmas season, we owe a debt of gratitude to MSNBC for drawing attention to the serious issue of spreading fascism in America.
MSNBC hosts Mehdi Hasan, whose show has since been canceled, and Joy Reid gave the Article III Project, the conservative legal group I lead, a platform the likes of which we could only dream of two weeks ago. Hasan targeted me, along with the Article III Project, for demanding we follow laws and protect our homeland from both foreign and domestic threats through means such as deporting terrorist-supporting visa holders and denaturalizing terrorist-supporting naturalized citizens. Reid, who’s long been a fan of weaponizing the federal government to target conservatives, believes it’s fascist to enforce the rules on our books for policing immigration, securing our borders, and preventing another 9/11 or 10/7 terrorist attack.
The battle-scarred and exhausted forces of Trump-hate must have reached their last extremity — the fatuous theory that “Making America Great” is fascistic and that there is some similarity between Trump and Hitler and Napoleon (as if there were any significant similarities between Hitler and Napoleon). It is surely the last trench before they throw down their weapons and flee on foot.
Trump supporters’ first order of business is punishing Republican dissenters; revenge against the Democrats will come later, if at all.
There are no perfect analogies, but the one that I think comes closest to describing the dynamic that has prevailed within the Republican coalition from 2016 on is illustrated by a scene in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987).
I don’t understand why the supporters of the party of Hamas and failure are giving Donald Trump an in-kind campaign contribution in the form of their girlish, fussy cries of “He’s an authoritarian!” but okay. That the Trump 2.0 administration would ruthlessly use all the powers at its disposal should Trump win in 2024 to punish his enemies is about the best argument there is for giving him the Grover Cleveland nod.
Even for the paranoia and hysteria that have become emblematic of Never Trumpers, the Trump-hating Atlantic magazine has outdone itself.
Alerting readers to this sizable forthcoming physical issue of the magazine, there is a jump on the subject with an online version.
The terrified headline in capital letters: IF TRUMP WINS
Donald Trump returned to his New York civil trial on Thursday as an accounting expert told the court there was “no evidence whatsoever” that the former US president and his family company committed fraud.
It was the first time that Trump had attended the $250m fraud trial in over a month. Outside the court, Trump called the witness “one of the greatest experts in the country.”
“We did nothing wrong. There were no victims. The bank loves us,” Trump said.
