DENVER (AP) — The campaign to use the U.S. Constitution’s “insurrection” clause to bar former President Donald Trump from running for the White House again enters a new phase this week as hearings begin in two states on lawsuits that might end up reaching the U.S. Supreme Court.
A weeklong hearing on one lawsuit to bar Trump from the ballot in Colorado begins Monday, while on Thursday oral arguments are scheduled before the Minnesota Supreme Court on an effort to kick the Republican former president off the ballot in that state.
…in two states that Trump never would have won anyway. It’s absolutely the right thing to do and I hope more states follow suit as ultimately that would force the GOP to kick Trump off the ballot as well.
If that fails I suggest we also add any other previously tried criminal that we see as fit to be our president. In a country having hundreds of thousands of perfectly good Americans that don’t commit crimes, sure, let’s give criminals a venue to better adjusting their freedoms.
This should definitely end up at the U. S. Supreme Court. This is for a federal position, so it should be decided at a federal level.
Unfortunately that’s not how it works because of the electoral college. You’re ultimately voting to choose your state’s electors. It’s up to each and every state to decide the process for choosing their electors.
There are a number of republicans that would disagree. Thankfully, they’ve been told no.
The independent state legislature theory or independent state legislature doctrine (ISL) is a judicially rejected legal theory that posits that the Constitution of the United States delegates authority to regulate federal elections within a state to that state’s elected lawmakers without any checks and balances from state courts, governors, or other bodies with legislative power (such as constitutional conventions or independent commissions).
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