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March 4, 2024

Leftists melt down after SCOTUS nukes Colorado’s effort to keep Trump off the ballot

By Andrea Widburg

This morning, the Supreme Court held that a state lacks authority under section 3 of the 14th Amendment to kick a presidential candidate off the state’s ballot. To reach this conclusion, the Court carefully analyzed the history of and purpose behind the 14th Amendment and the Constitution as a whole. Once SCOTUS concluded that Colorado’s Supreme Court erred, it could not and did not look at the substantive issue of an alleged “insurrection.” Leftists, however, are in complete meltdown mode over the fact that SCOTUS did not say, “Trump is an insurrectionist!”

You can read the decision or, if you’re pressed for time, my summary. The gist is simple: The 14th Amendment was intended to limit state power over the federal government, not expand it.

The fact that Colorado lacks this power means that SCOTUS did not need to address whether Trump is an insurrectionist. That’s because a state court cannot reach a potentially binding conclusion about “insurrection” any more than a court in Zimbabwe can meaningfully conclude that Biden is demented.

Even if the decision is correct (and yes, in Biden’s case, it’s true that he’s demented), it’s irrelevant. But try telling that to leftists. That Jack Smith, the federal prosecutor who views himself as the Trump terminator, hasn’t indicted Trump for insurrection also doesn’t penetrate their crania.

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To give you an idea of how leftism rots the brain, a Georgetown law professor (!) doesn’t understand that once the Supreme Court determined that states have no authority to call someone an insurrectionist and boot that person off the ballot, Colorado’s conclusion about insurrection is void from the get-go. (Pay particular attention to the last tweet in this thread.)

Did I mention that this guy is a law professor? I mean, he’s a professor at Georgetown, which, nowadays, is like being king of a dunghill, but he’s still a law professor. What a maroon.

Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe (another rooster crowing on a little dunghill) didn’t even pretend to make a legal argument, simply announcing that it was judicial fiat to say that states cannot override Congress and the Constitution:

Then there’s also the always reliable, wild-eyed Keith Olbermann, who says that the Supreme Court has “betrayed democracy” by leaving to the people of Colorado the right to select their president:

This makes sense only if you understand that, for leftists, democracy doesn’t mean “the power of the people.” It means “the Democrat party.”

Then there’s Colorado’s Secretary of State, Jena Griswold. She says the Supreme Court’s decision is wrong because it “strip[s]” the states of a right—but the whole point of the decision is that this right never existed and, of course, no state has even tried to exercise this non-existent right before five minutes ago:

At CNN (a dying network), the leftist talking heads struggled with the reality that the Court was right to leave the election in the hands of the American people:

Harry Sisson, the young man who thinks Joe Biden is one sexy, buffed dude, ignores the decision's unanimity and blames it all on Clarence Thomas, a black man who has unforgivably chosen to be an independent thinker:

It’s kind of flattering that Sisson accords Thomas so much power—unwillingly, it’s true, but Sisson still recognizes Thomas’s greatness.

The Babylon Bee, of course, has the best response of all to the crazy leftism coming down the pike:

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