Judge J. Michael Luttig rebukes the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision against Colorado

[whitehall]

That's why Luttig is not on the Court. His opinions are based on politics rather than the Constitution.

 

[Billiejeens]

What insurrection?
When was Trump charged with and convicted of insurrection?

Wow - that is so, last decade.

One doesn't need to be a woman to complete in women's sports.
One doesn't need to be a person of color to lead the NAACP or BLM.
One doesn't need to have committed an insurrection to be an insurrectionist.

The left just makes words mean whatever they want them to mean, until they want them to mean something else.

 

[Billiejeens]

This person simply hates President Trump like poison.

To his credit, he has made no attempt to hide that.

 

[JWBooth]

Former federal judge: Supreme Court ‘dangerously betrayed’ democracy with Trump disqualification decision

Editor’s note: Luttig and Tribe wrote the op-ed published on March 14 in The Atlantic. A previous version of this story included incomplete information. Retired federal judge J. Michael Lutti…

thehill.com

Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig issued a searing rebuke of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision that Colorado could not disqualify former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban, preserving his ability to seek a second term.

In a piece published in The Atlantic on Thursday, Luttig, a longtime conservative jurist on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said all nine justices “dangerously betrayed” democracy in making their decision.

Luttig, who had been vocal in support of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar Trump from the ballot, described Section 3 of the 14th Amendment as the Constitution’s “safety net for America’s democracy, promising to automatically disqualify from public office all oath-breaking insurrectionists against the Constitution, deeming them too dangerous to entrust with power unless supermajorities of both houses of Congress formally remove their disability.”

Comment:
Is judge Luttig delusional?
What insurrection?
When was Trump charged with and convicted of insurrection?
How is the corrupt Democrat Party attempting to illegally remove Trump from the ballot using bogus charges 'saving democracy'?
It is the opposite.
Using bogus charges to remove Trump from the ballot is raping 'democracy.'
Only congress can use the 14th Amendment to remove a president from office, not the States.

Some asshole who never made it to the show critiqueing those who did. An AAA ballplayer second guessing Cesar Cedeño.

 

[BlindBoo]

There is no national election but 50 state elections, so of course Constitutionally it should be up to the states to decide. There is literally nothing in the Constitution that grants the Feds the power to tell the states who must be included on their presidential ballots. "The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States."

IMHO It should be, but we'd need to Pass a National Popular Vote Amendment for it to be constitutional.

"Conclusion

It is clear in every respect that the congressional fail-safe described in the Elections Clause vests purely secondary authority over federal elections in the federal legislative branch and that the primary authority rests with the States. Congressional authority is intended to be, and as a matter of constitutional fact is, limited to addressing the worst imaginable issues, such as invasion or other matters that might lead to a State not electing representatives to constitute the two Houses ofCongress. Our authority has never extended to the day-to-day authority over the “Times, Places and Manner of Election” that the Constitution clearly reserves to the States."

The Elections Clause: States’ Primary Constitutional Authority Over Elections

U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration

cha.house.gov

 

[Nostra]

There is no national election but 50 state elections, so of course Constitutionally it should be up to the states to decide. There is literally nothing in the Constitution that grants the Feds the power to tell the states who must be included on their presidential ballots. "The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States."

IMHO It should be, but we'd need to Pass a National Popular Vote Amendment for it to be constitutional.

"Conclusion

It is clear in every respect that the congressional fail-safe described in the Elections Clause vests purely secondary authority over federal elections in the federal legislative branch and that the primary authority rests with the States. Congressional authority is intended to be, and as a matter of constitutional fact is, limited to addressing the worst imaginable issues, such as invasion or other matters that might lead to a State not electing representatives to constitute the two Houses ofCongress. Our authority has never extended to the day-to-day authority over the “Times, Places and Manner of Election” that the Constitution clearly reserves to the States."

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If states try to use the 14th to disenfranchise their voters they will always get bitchslapped because Section 5 gives sole enforcement authority to Congress

 

[blackhawk]

He is entitled to his opinion but it's not one shared by the nine Supreme Court Justices and there's are the ones that mattered.

 

[BluesLegend]

Former federal judge: Supreme Court ‘dangerously betrayed’ democracy with Trump disqualification decision

Editor’s note: Luttig and Tribe wrote the op-ed published on March 14 in The Atlantic. A previous version of this story included incomplete information. Retired federal judge J. Michael Lutti…

thehill.com

Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig issued a searing rebuke of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision that Colorado could not disqualify former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban, preserving his ability to seek a second term.

In a piece published in The Atlantic on Thursday, Luttig, a longtime conservative jurist on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said all nine justices “dangerously betrayed” democracy in making their decision.

Luttig, who had been vocal in support of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar Trump from the ballot, described Section 3 of the 14th Amendment as the Constitution’s “safety net for America’s democracy, promising to automatically disqualify from public office all oath-breaking insurrectionists against the Constitution, deeming them too dangerous to entrust with power unless supermajorities of both houses of Congress formally remove their disability.”

Comment:
Is judge Luttig delusional?
What insurrection?
When was Trump charged with and convicted of insurrection?
How is the corrupt Democrat Party attempting to illegally remove Trump from the ballot using bogus charges 'saving democracy'?
It is the opposite.
Using bogus charges to remove Trump from the ballot is raping 'democracy.'
Only congress can use the 14th Amendment to remove a president from office, not the States.

So, extreme butthurt Democrat got it.

 

[BluesLegend]

Wait, did he get a check from the Biden's soon after a bunch of Chinese money hit their accounts?

 

[BluesLegend]

That's why Luttig is not on the Court. His opinions are based on politics rather than the Constitution.

Sounds like that clown is a Dem NAZI Gestapo captain.

 

[Independentthinker]

Former federal judge: Supreme Court ‘dangerously betrayed’ democracy with Trump disqualification decision

Editor’s note: Luttig and Tribe wrote the op-ed published on March 14 in The Atlantic. A previous version of this story included incomplete information. Retired federal judge J. Michael Lutti…

thehill.com

Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig issued a searing rebuke of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision that Colorado could not disqualify former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban, preserving his ability to seek a second term.

In a piece published in The Atlantic on Thursday, Luttig, a longtime conservative jurist on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said all nine justices “dangerously betrayed” democracy in making their decision.

Luttig, who had been vocal in support of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar Trump from the ballot, described Section 3 of the 14th Amendment as the Constitution’s “safety net for America’s democracy, promising to automatically disqualify from public office all oath-breaking insurrectionists against the Constitution, deeming them too dangerous to entrust with power unless supermajorities of both houses of Congress formally remove their disability.”

Comment:
Is judge Luttig delusional?
What insurrection?
When was Trump charged with and convicted of insurrection?
How is the corrupt Democrat Party attempting to illegally remove Trump from the ballot using bogus charges 'saving democracy'?
It is the opposite.
Using bogus charges to remove Trump from the ballot is raping 'democracy.'
Only congress can use the 14th Amendment to remove a president from office, not the States.

A 9-0 case is a 9-0 case.

 

[BlindBoo]

If states try to use the 14th to disenfranchise their voters they will always get bitchslapped because Section 5 gives sole enforcement authority to Congress

The disqualification section gives the Feds an override provision to use when a state disqualifies a candidate from the ballot. Nothing in the Constitution gives the power to the feds force a particular candidate on any states ballot.

 

[Nostra]

The disqualification section gives the Feds an override provision to use when a state disqualifies a candidate from the ballot. Nothing in the Constitution gives the power to the feds force a particular candidate on any states ballot.

Section 5 is crystal clear to anyone with a brain, Congress has sole enforcement power. Period.

 

[Lesh]

So a lib judge got his opinion printed in a lib magazine. Shocked, I tell you.

Lib judge???

Are you brain dead?

Luttig is a long time hard core conservative

 

[BlindBoo]

Section 5 is crystal clear to anyone with a brain, Congress has sole enforcement power. Period.

Where does it say sole or exclusive enforcement power? Since it doesn't, the states have the right to enforce it themselves lacking Congressional legislation.

 

[Nostra]

Where does it say sole or exclusive enforcement power? Since it doesn't, the states have the right to enforce it themselves lacking Congressional legislation.

Congress is the only entity listed, Moron. Just confirmed 9-0 by the US Supreme Court.

Quote the 14th saying “The disqualification section gives the Feds an override provision to use when a state disqualifies a candidate from the ballot”

 

[BlindBoo]

Congress is the only entity listed, Moron. Just confirmed 9-0 by the US Supreme Court.

Quote the 14th saying “The disqualification section gives the Feds an override provision to use when a state disqualifies a candidate from the ballot”

But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Did Congress take such a vote or did the SC do it for them? Are you for the Courts federalizing the Presidential elections?

 

[Nostra]

But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Did Congress take such a vote or did the SC do it for them? Are you for the Courts federalizing the Presidential elections?

Still waiting for you to point out where the 14th says what you claim……..

 

[Libby von H]

Former federal judge: Supreme Court ‘dangerously betrayed’ democracy with Trump disqualification decision

Editor’s note: Luttig and Tribe wrote the op-ed published on March 14 in The Atlantic. A previous version of this story included incomplete information. Retired federal judge J. Michael Lutti…

thehill.com

Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig issued a searing rebuke of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision that Colorado could not disqualify former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban, preserving his ability to seek a second term.

In a piece published in The Atlantic on Thursday, Luttig, a longtime conservative jurist on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said all nine justices “dangerously betrayed” democracy in making their decision.

Luttig, who had been vocal in support of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar Trump from the ballot, described Section 3 of the 14th Amendment as the Constitution’s “safety net for America’s democracy, promising to automatically disqualify from public office all oath-breaking insurrectionists against the Constitution, deeming them too dangerous to entrust with power unless supermajorities of both houses of Congress formally remove their disability.”

Comment:
Is judge Luttig delusional?
What insurrection?
When was Trump charged with and convicted of insurrection?
How is the corrupt Democrat Party attempting to illegally remove Trump from the ballot using bogus charges 'saving democracy'?
It is the opposite.
Using bogus charges to remove Trump from the ballot is raping 'democracy.'
Only congress can use the 14th Amendment to remove a president from office, not the States.

Nine justices doing their job and one retired hack looking to drum up circulation for his Atlantic piece. C'mon,if he were on the Court you be savaging him too. [ I know what many readers who agree with me are saying/thinking right now....Why give top analytical skills to the poster, who is not a retired judge or a sitting judge or even someone with a legal education ]

 

[Batcat]

Former federal judge: Supreme Court ‘dangerously betrayed’ democracy with Trump disqualification decision

Editor’s note: Luttig and Tribe wrote the op-ed published on March 14 in The Atlantic. A previous version of this story included incomplete information. Retired federal judge J. Michael Lutti…

thehill.com

Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig issued a searing rebuke of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision that Colorado could not disqualify former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban, preserving his ability to seek a second term.

In a piece published in The Atlantic on Thursday, Luttig, a longtime conservative jurist on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said all nine justices “dangerously betrayed” democracy in making their decision.

Luttig, who had been vocal in support of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar Trump from the ballot, described Section 3 of the 14th Amendment as the Constitution’s “safety net for America’s democracy, promising to automatically disqualify from public office all oath-breaking insurrectionists against the Constitution, deeming them too dangerous to entrust with power unless supermajorities of both houses of Congress formally remove their disability.”

Comment:
Is judge Luttig delusional?
What insurrection?
When was Trump charged with and convicted of insurrection?
How is the corrupt Democrat Party attempting to illegally remove Trump from the ballot using bogus charges 'saving democracy'?
It is the opposite.
Using bogus charges to remove Trump from the ballot is raping 'democracy.'
Only congress can use the 14th Amendment to remove a president from office, not the States.

Who gives a damn about a retired federal court judge’s opinion.