federally indicted mattoid wrote:
If you don't understand why he was removed from the ballot by the Colorado Supreme Court based on the language of the amendment, I cannot explain it to you.
It's simple, plain language.
But if you want to complain about staying stupid, you've come to the right place.
It is the U.S. Constitution's 14th amendment.
Fourteenth Amendment Section 3 | Constitution Annotated
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Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office ... But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability
Defining disqualification
Section 3 then says people can be disqualified from holding office if they “engaged in insurrection or rebellion.” Legal authorities from the American Revolution to the post-Civil War Reconstruction understood an insurrection to have occurred when two or more people resisted a federal law by force or violence for a public, or civic, purpose.
Shay’s Rebellion, the Whiskey Insurrection, Burr’s Rebellion, John Brown’s Raid, and other events were insurrections, even when the goal was not overturning the government.
What these events had in common was that people were trying to prevent the enforcement of laws that were consequences of persuasion, coalition building, and voting. Or they were trying to create new laws by force, violence, and intimidation.
These words in the amendment declare that those who turn to bullets when ballots fail to provide their desired result cannot be trusted as democratic officials.
When applied specifically to the events on Jan. 6, 2021, the amendment declares that those who turn to violence when voting goes against them cannot hold office in a democratic nation.
It has seven justices, each of whom was appointed by a Democratic governor. The seven-person Colorado Supreme Court, which found in a historic ruling Tuesday that Donald Trump is ineligible to be on the state's primary ballot, is composed entirely of judges appointed by Democrats.
Trump has not been charged or convicted of insurrection.
Judges in several states, including Minnesota, Michigan, and New Hampshire have dismissed lawsuits similar to the one brought in Colorado.
Trump has not been formally charged with insurrection.