Illinois voters ask elections board to take Trump off 2024 ballot

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

The right wing SCOTUS may well make that claim …. If they take the case.

If they don’t Trump is in trouble

This is spreading

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We hear your fear.





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[Lesh]

But Trump WAS elected to the OFFICE. Of the Presidency so there’s that

 

[JGalt]

The right wing SCOTUS may well make that claim …. If they take the case.

If they don’t Trump is in trouble

This is spreading

 

[Esdraelon]

I don't think citizens per se have standing in this matter.

They should become a bit more imaginative regarding the potential pitfalls of such actions. The 2024 election will come before a Republican House in January of 2025. The House will be legally empowered to refuse electoral votes from states that did not allow the same major candidates as the rest of the nation. So, Illinois, Colorado, Maine, and maybe Cali, all could see their votes annulled. Imagine what the reaction would be. One thing, as they say, leads to another...

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

They should become a bit more imaginative regarding the potential pitfalls of such actions. The 2024 election will come before a Republican House in January of 2025. The House will be legally empowered to refuse electoral votes from states that did not allow the same major candidates as the rest of the nation. So, Illinois, Colorado, Maine, and maybe Cali, all could see their votes annulled. Imagine what the reaction would be. One thing, as they say, leads to another...

The House will go blue by 12 states (but your caution is noted), the Senate will be 51 or 52 red, and right now not even God knows about the Presidency.

 

[tahuyaman]

We have to protect democracy by denying people the right to vote for their candidate of choice.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

We have to protect democracy by denying people the right to vote for their candidate of choice.

You are indeed MAGA boy.

 

[struth]

‘A group of voters from Illinois asked the state board of elections Thursday to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, making it the most recent state where the former president faces a challenge to his candidacy under the 14th Amendment’s so-called insurrectionist ban.

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“Donald J. Trump, through his words and actions, after swearing an oath as an officer of the United States to support the Constitution, engaged in insurrection or rebellion, or gave aid and comfort to its enemies, as defined by Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the voters wrote in their petition to the board of elections.’

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/04/politics/illinois-voters-ask-elections-board-to-take-trump-off-2024-ballot/index.html

Let the states decide, the Supreme Court shouldn’t interfere.

I agree with your last statement…tell that to the demafacist on CO Supreme Court!

Why are the demafasict so scared of letting the people decide who they want to vote for???

 

[cnm]

The President is not an officer, the President commissions all officer per Article II.

Yet he occupies the office of President, as it is referred to in the Constitution.

What a conundrum.

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The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.​

 

[drudge X]

Lol...instead of demanding Democrats to reduce the murder count in Chicago, TDS is a priority.

 

[Esdraelon]

The House will go blue by 12 states (but your caution is noted), the Senate will be 51 or 52 red, and right now not even God knows about the Presidency.

Yes, but the results of who wins or loses seats will not matter with regard to what House Republicans COULD DO before the election is certified. Who knows if they'd have the balls to do the right thing but they COULD.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

The Dimocrat party is really working us toward a physical civil conflict.
If it happens, go look in the mirror when you start looking for the blame.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Count on more states to do the same.

I agree . Every state has its leftists kooks.

 

[Lesh]

Yes, but the results of who wins or loses seats will not matter with regard to what House Republicans COULD DO before the election is certified. Who knows if they'd have the balls to do the right thing but they COULD.

That didn’t go so well last time

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The states conduct Federal elections, consistent with states’ rights; they should determine qualifications in accordance with the Constitution, not Federal courts:

‘Centralizers and systemizers might call this a patchwork quilt. What it also is, as I’ve long argued, is a source of deep resilience. Part of this is practical: with dozens of voting systems in use, if a newly introduced machine is overly subject to breakdown, at least it isn’t causing havoc everywhere at once. If some states adopt a bad or inefficient practice (as by discouraging the processing of mailed ballots before Election Day, which slowed counts in states like Michigan and Pennsylvania) they can profit from the example of states like Florida that have implemented more efficient methods after their own costly experience.

Far more important, it prevents a power from being centralized that would be dangerously tempting to demagogues and authoritarians. “We are so lucky that elections have never been federalized,” I told Reason’s Eric Boehm last month. “No one in Washington can give orders to fire local election board officials.”’

Here's Why States Run Their Own Elections (And Why That's a Good Thing)

Centralizers and systemizers might call this a patchwork quilt. What it also is, as I’ve long argued, is a source of deep resilience.

nationalinterest.org

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The murder rate is going down significantly, but drudge X would have you believe Democrats are putting Republicfascists against the wall and shooting them.

 

[lennypartiv]

‘A group of voters from Illinois asked the state board of elections Thursday to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, making it the most recent state where the former president faces a challenge to his candidacy under the 14th Amendment’s so-called insurrectionist ban.

Did you think Trump ever had a chance of winning Illinois?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Let the voters decide.

 

[0311]

So your buying tRump's defense?

He is a for shit lawyer. But then his client is for shit as well.

 

[0311]

The murder rate is going down significantly, but drudge X would have you believe Democrats are putting Republicfascists against the wall and shooting them.

The fascist ReNaziKlans hate facts that does NOT conform to their neo-idiot preconceived reality.