Jacob Ogles
News that Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled Donald Trump cannot appear on the ballot sparked emotional reactions in the candidate’s home state. Florida Republicans, even one competing with Trump for the GOP presidential nomination, rapidly defended the former President. But Democrats hold a different outlook.
Trump campaign statement, via spokesperson Steven Cheung: “Unsurprisingly, the all-Democrat appointed Colorado Supreme Court has ruled against President Trump, supporting a (George) Soros-funded, left-wing group’s scheme to interfere in an election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden by removing President Trump’s name from the ballot and eliminating the rights of Colorado voters to vote for the candidate of their choice. Democrat Party leaders are in a state of paranoia over the growing, dominant lead President Trump has amassed in the polls. They have lost faith in the failed Biden presidency and are now doing everything they can to stop the American voters from throwing them out of office next November. The Colorado Supreme Court issued a completely flawed decision tonight and we will swiftly file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and a concurrent request for a stay of this deeply undemocratic decision. We have full confidence that the U.S. Supreme Court will quickly rule in our favor and finally put an end to these un-American lawsuits.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republican Presidential candidate, posted: “The Left invokes ’democracy’ to justify its use of power, even if it means abusing judicial power to remove a candidate from the ballot based on spurious legal grounds. (The Supreme Court of the United States) should reverse.”
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, a Miami Republican, posted: “The U.S. has put sanctions on other countries for doing exactly what the Colorado Supreme Court has done today.”
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, a Naples Republican, posted in English and Spanish: “This is insane. In the US, we don’t allow political hacks to kick their ‘enemies’ off the ballot because they disagree with them. If this is the path that radical Democrats choose to weaponize the courts against conservatives, we are no better than the socialist regimes in Venezuela and Cuba. Joe Biden can’t win an election so he’s trying to use the legal system to steal it. It’s what happens in third world countries. Biden’s no different from Xi (Jinping, Chinese President) or (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, just older and with a weaker grasp of the English language. Liberal activist judges in Colorado are following the same playbook as (Venezuelan President Nicolás) Maduro and (deceased Cuban dictator Fidel) Castro. Democrats’ gross attempts to silence or disenfranchise American voters will never stand.”
U.S. Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Miami Democrat, said: “When you break the law and attack democracy, it has consequences. Even if you’re a former President. Trump is anti-democratic and has been ruled ineligible for office yet Rick Scott STILL proudly endorses him. There’s no place on the ballot for someone who is anti-democracy.”
U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack, a Gainesville Republican, posted: “The Colorado ruling is an affront to our republic. The court opting to disenfranchise voters and strip their voice ought to be a concern for every American regardless of their opinions on President Trump. Frankly this is judicial activism at its utter worst. When judges limit our choices in a free election, it is no longer a free election.”
U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, a Naples Republican, wrote: “This is blatant disenfranchisement of millions of voters from the Colorado Supreme Court. Trump says it best: They’re not after me. They’re after you. I’m just in the way. TRUMP 2024.”
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Fort Walton Beach Republican, added: “Democrats are trying to imprison their chief political opponent and have now apparently succeeded at removing him from the ballot. This is what dictators do. I’m confident that the U.S. Supreme Court will not allow this egregious ruling to stand. The American people will decide their next president, not activist judges in Colorado.”
U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a St. Petersburg Republican, posted: “It’ll get slapped down by the Supreme Court.”
U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, a Winter Park Republican, said: “The American people see right through the left’s pattern of election meddling/ interference. First, there were unprecedented indictments in New York and Georgia, and now Colorado is pulling Trump off the 2024 ballot — President Trump is a clear victim of political persecution. The leftist-controlled Colorado Supreme Court’s move contradicts the democratic values the left claims to fight for. SCOTUS must intervene! This is blatant election interference, violating the First Amendment and distorting the 14th Amendment’s intent. It’s time for the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold democracy!”
U.S. Rep. Greg Steube, a Sarasota Republican, posted: “Not even Jack Smith charged Trump with Insurrection. Yet, 4 liberal judges in Colorado want to tell every voter in the state to vote for Joe Biden. They don’t even want voters in Colorado to have the choice of a candidate. That’s not a democratic republic, that’s a banana republic.”
U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, a Saint Augustine Beach Republican, wrote: “The decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to remove Trump from the ballot is banana republic nonsense. Clearly the Left is desperate after Biden’s nosedive in the polls. These four unelected judges have decided for the rest of the country — with no trial, no jury, and no conviction — that the former President and leading candidate is guilty of insurrection. SCOTUS must dismiss this garbage before it gets out of hand.”
U.S. Rep. Daniel Webster, a Clermont Republican, posted: “This unprecedented action is a politically motivated attack on Donald Trump!”
16 comments
Dont Say FLA
December 20, 2023 at 11:26 am
1- Did any of these outraged Florida pols suggest what the 14th amendment’s 3rd clause is intended for, if not exactly what Trump did?
2- Did any of the folks in the GOP primary, the ones trying to compete with Trump, leverage this to their own advantage? If not, why not? Are they just not that smart with the strategery?
When you get an opportunity to KO an opponent that is up by 50 points in the 23rd round, you take that opportunity. If you pass on the chance, why are you even in the match? Just concede already.
Tom
December 20, 2023 at 1:55 pm
That intrigues me as well. They’re (apparently) running against trump but every time trump gets into more legal trouble, they stand right behind him and support him which makes them look weak and spineless. A few days later, trump comes out and says that they’re weak and spineless as they run around competing in a race to the bottom. Trump has been doing trump since 2015 and they haven’t figured it out yet? FFS.
My prediction
December 20, 2023 at 11:33 am
If the SCOTUS doesn’t do the smart thing and decline to hear the case, here’s my prediction:
The SCOTUS’s strict constitutionalists will support the Colorado decision, as it is unassailable based on the US Constitution.
Clarence Thomas will vote to overturn Colorado, of course, since his wife is an insurrectionist and he is bought and paid for.
Democrat appointed justices might talk themselves into one vote to overturn just so it doesn’t look partisan, but only if the Constitutionalists do like they normally do and go with the Constitutaion.
The irony of G0P Presidents appointing Constitutionalist justices is almost certainly fixing to come home to roost. As an added benefit for Trump appointed justices, they are in a position to legitimize themselves with their Constitutionally based votes against Trump.
SteveHC
December 20, 2023 at 12:36 pm
– Agree with you on all points EXCEPT your statement that 1 Democrat-appointed justice possibly voting to overturn; I just don’t see that happening.
Dont Say FLA
December 20, 2023 at 1:03 pm
TBH i don’t see that either. I’m just putting the idea out there in case somebody might see it and think bipartisan dissent might come across better with the MAGA crowd and possibly result in less violence wrought upon American by outraged MAGAs.
My Take
December 20, 2023 at 12:38 pm
“We have full confidence that our GOPer stooges on the U.S. Supreme Court will quickly rule in our favor…..”
SteveHC
December 20, 2023 at 12:41 pm
And yet again Florida’s GOP politicians demonstrate their clear preference for remaining as anti-American, “Constitution and law be damned” fascist political scum. Sorry but I can muster zero respect for such wannabe national traitors.
My Take
December 20, 2023 at 2:14 pm
BUT suppose the Supreme Court ďecides to take this unique and simpĺe opportunity to save the GOP, bites the bullet, and disqualifies Trump.
My Take
December 20, 2023 at 2:39 pm
Will MAGA explode if the USSC èffectively eliminates him? Opens the door for other states to bar him.
Will authorities face massive riots?
Will National Guard troops be faced with murderous a armed masses?
Will it finally be FMJ and full-auto time in America?
Dont Say FLA
December 20, 2023 at 3:41 pm
No need for alarm. No need for the national guard. Swifties will smack the MAGA crybabies down.
Gonna let the MAGAs in on our open secret so y’all have some time to think about what you did before you go and suicide yourselves over a former TV personality with a Messiah complex.
All those guns sold in USA during Covid, some of them went to y’all gun hoarding MAGAs all of whom already had 20+ guns yet still only 2 hands and they can barely even get off the couch to get another beer or go to the toilet, so they keep a mini-fridge in the bathroom stocked with Bud Light (shhhhh don’t tell), shortening and easing their onerous journey from the couch and back for handling their liquids.
The rest of those guns sold during Covid were sold to first time gun buyers, none of whom are gun hoarding MAGAs, all of whom have two hands available for their one gun, and all of whom are able to stand, walk, run, jump and yes even get up off the couch.
When Trump loses for whatever reason, y’all MAGAs just shake it off. Remember you are not in a cult of personality, right? You’re in a movement. There will be another leader after Trump. Now, or when he croaks. Either way, when he’s gone, just shake it off.
My Take
December 20, 2023 at 5:30 pm
Will Uncle Clarence backstab America?
Will his refusal to recuse give the deciding vote for Trump to run unimpeded?
Dont Say FLA
December 21, 2023 at 2:07 pm
Clarence does whatever the plantation owner tells him to do. If the PO is sick of Trump and wants Trump to go away, Clarence will rule for Trump to go away. If the PO is Putin or somebody who wants USA back on its knees, Clarence will rule that Trump stays.
David
December 20, 2023 at 9:01 pm
Florida Republicans should be equally outraged at elected officials who were duly elected by the citizens in Florida being removed from office by the Executive Branch (Governor DeSantis). Don’t talk about democracy when its convenient and don’t give me the Judicial Branch should not decide who the candidate is – when you have allowed the Executive in your State to remove elected officials. See how that works.
Sonja Fitch
December 21, 2023 at 4:59 am
It is the purpose of the American constitution to answer any questions we experience! American constitution is amazing in how the predictions of governing folks has been correct and successful! No one is above OUR law!
My Take
December 21, 2023 at 1:34 pm
Whether it ultimately works or not, iit certainly is fun.
My Take
December 21, 2023 at 10:53 pm
Are the USSC justices mostly Trumptoadies or mostly more normal conservatives? I would guess the latter.
So do they feel any temptation to solve the GOP’s Trump problem?
One vote, with then great turmoil sure, but with Trump at least removable if not yet outright removed from great influence.
On with the show with many ” normals.” It would be their job tò ďea. Withthe lesser kooks: DoofSSantis, Ramenswampy, and any others.
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