DENVER (AP) — The Colorado judge overseeing the first significant lawsuit to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot on Friday issued a protective order prohibiting threats and intimidation in the case, saying the safety of those involved — including herself and her staff — was necessary as the groundbreaking litigation moves forward.
“I 100% understand everybody’s concerns for the parties, the lawyers, and frankly myself and my staff based on what we’ve seen in other cases,” District Judge Sarah B. Wallace said as she agreed to the protective order.
The order prohibits parties in the case from making threatening or intimidating statements. Scott Gessler, a former Colorado secretary of state representing Trump in the case, opposed it. He said a protective order was unnecessary because threats and intimidation already are prohibited by law.
So, threats and intimation is otherwise Okay???
Per the article:
Scott Gessler, a former Colorado secretary of state representing Trump in the case, opposed it. He said a protective order was unnecessary because threats and intimidation already are prohibited by law.
And then they don’t explain further
So this is the judge saying “1… 2… 2.5…” instead of just throwing his fat ass in jail already.
They are saying, in no uncertain terms, that certain behavior is not allowed.
For when he does it anyway. So they Court can just skip the “I didn’t knowwwww!” defense and punish him.
The quote I was responding to is from his lawyer saying it’s already illegal. They’re admitting that they already know.
two and 3/4… two and 7/8… two and 9/10…
Normally there are warnings. This is their warning.
The question, though, is, “Will it be enforced?”
The bigger question is, is this legal at all? Why can the government tell a private citizen that he can’t be on the ballot of a private club? It doesn’t matter what the private citizen did or didn’t do, the government can’t ban other people from associating with him.
Trumps violent group of degenerates certainly will do anything to protect Trump from justice.
Party of “law and order” will think of this is a political move rather then a criminal actually facing penalties for commiting numerous serious crimes he’s been indicted with in court.
Law and order for thee but not for me. Just look at what the GOP is doing with the electoral maps in Ohio and the SC justice in WI. They don’t believe in law and order they believe everyone should obey them abd be ruled by them anything else is seen as illegitimate to them.
Wait what kind of hell hole do we live in where the government can ban people from the ballot of a private club? To be clear to the liberals here, the DNC and the GOP are NOT governmental organizations, and Primary’s have nothing to do with our constitution or voting rights. Plus as was established in 2016, the primary vote itself is 100% optional by the parties involved. They could skip them all together, and just decide to run Trump as their nominee, and there is nothing the Federal Government can do about that. So what the fuck is this case?
It hasn’t happened yet, so we don’t know the exact legal justification for why it should or shouldn’t be allowed. This is a lawsuit to remove Trump’s name from the ballots.
- Courts have disqualified officials under the Fourteenth Amendment who played far less substantial roles in insurrections, and who, like Trump, did not personally commit violent acts. This includes Couy Griffin, a former New Mexico county commissioner who was a grassroots mobilizer, inciter, and member of Trump’s mob on January 6th (but did not commit violent acts or breach the Capitol building), and Kenneth Worthy, who served as a sheriff in a Confederate state (but did not take up arms in the Confederate army).7 If these individuals’ conduct warranted Section 3 disqualification, then surely Trump’s does as well.
- Since January 6, 2021, Trump has publicly affirmed his disloyalty to the Constitution and his allegiance to the insurrectionists who seized the Capitol for him. He has called the insurrectionists “patriots,”8 vowed to give many “full pardons with an apology” if he becomes President again,9 financially supported them,10 released a song with a choir of convicted January 6th defendants called “Justice for All,”11 and hugged on camera a convicted January 6th defendant who has said that Pence and Members of Congress who voted to certify Biden’s victory should be executed for treason.12
Without going through the whole legal document, there seems to be a fairly good reason for why Trump shouldn’t be allowed to run for president, and removing his name from the primary elections would be one step towards that.
