EMERGENCY: Blue States RUSHING To Get Trump Off Ballot
We told you how the Colorado Supreme Court outrageously agreed with the far Left’s radical interpretation of the 14th Amendment and ruled to remove President Trump from the ballot before the 2024 presidential election. Now it looks like several other states might follow suit.
CBS News reports how officials in California are exploring their legal options to remove Trump from the ballot:
Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis is urging California’s Secretary of State to explore every legal option to remove former President Donald Trump from California’s 2024 presidential primary ballot.
The request follows Colorado’s Supreme Court ruling Tuesday, which ordered the former president's name to be excluded from the state's Republican presidential primary ballot. . . .
Kounalakis said California must stand on the right side of history, and follow Colorado. “The Colorado decision can be the basis for a similar decision here in our state. The constitution is clear: you must be 35 years old and not be an insurrectionist,” Kounalakis wrote.
The Lt. Governor also urged an expedited decision at the certified list of candidates for the March 5, 2024 primary election is next week, Dec. 28.
I wouldn’t be shocked to see an avalanche of states follow Colorado’s lead.
Let me tell you why this is the greatest election interference in U.S. history. The frontrunner in a presidential election has been removed from the ballot – thanks to the narrow 4-3 decision by leftist justices in Colorado. This has spiraled into other states saying they’ll do the same thing.
This has a dual effect: 1) People supporting the frontrunner will now vote for someone else, or 2) people won’t vote at all, believing the whole election to be rigged.
The far Left’s argument is all based on a flimsy premise that Donald Trump is “disqualified” from running for public office because of the 14th Amendment’s provision that was intended to prohibit Confederate officers from seeking office. Regardless of the fact that the former President has neither been charged nor convicted of insurrection.
We are taking aggressive action to combat this clear election interference. We are representing the Colorado Republican Party in this case, and we plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court next week.
We will be pointing out three legal issues to the U.S. Supreme Court:
- The Colorado GOP's First Amendment right to freedom of association to nominate the candidate of their choice has been violated.
- The President is not an officer of the United States – he's the head of the Executive Branch that appoints officers. Thus, the 14th Amendment doesn't apply to him.
- The 14th Amendment can't be self-executing. Since President Trump has never been charged with insurrection, the Left's argument for using the 14th Amendment is invalid.
Here is a step-by-step guide to what the ACLJ will be doing for the next week. Our next step is to file a petition of writ of certiorari. Normally, a legal team has 90 days to file this – we have six days. This is a request for review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
After this, the Supreme Court must agree to hear the case. Because this is moving so quickly, we will ask for expedited review because the American people need a ruling before the primary ballots are printed. This will hopefully put to rest all this nonsense before primary voting starts on January 15.
This is the biggest election integrity case in our nation’s history. We can’t allow a presidential candidate to be removed because of what the far Left wishes the Constitution says instead of what it actually says. If the far Left is successful, it will create utter chaos in our electoral system for decades to come.
The ACLJ will do everything we can to ensure all Americans have the right to vote for the candidate of their choice.
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Watch the full broadcast to see my dad, ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow, explain the ACLJ’s next steps at the U.S. Supreme Court to fight the biggest election interference in U.S. history. Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard also joined to react to the absurdity of the Colorado ruling.
Watch the full broadcast below: