As we've noted, liberals aren't having a good day Monday after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Colorado can not kick Donald Trump off the ballot citing the 14th Amendment. It was a 9-0 decision. All of the justices agreed that the Consitution says it's the job of Congress to decide if Trump was guilty of insurrection, not the Colorado Supreme Court.
This was the Associated Press' framing of the decision:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot, rejecting state attempts to hold him accountable for attack on Capitol in 2021.
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) March 4, 2024
"attack" lol.
— JWF (@JammieWF) March 4, 2024
That’s not how the court framed their decision, you worthless garbage human being.
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) March 4, 2024
Interesting framing
— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) March 4, 2024
Are those tears on your post?
There were definitely tears over at The Nation, where they hastily put together this article. John Nichols writes "that court’s ruling that states can’t remove Trump from the ballot flies in the face of the 14th Amendment’s crystal-clear language":
“The plain text of the Constitution could not be any clearer,” says Maryland US Representative Jamie Raskin, the constitutional law scholar who served as lead impeachment manager for the second trial of former President Donald Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors, and who then joined the bipartisan Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. “If you’ve sworn an oath to support the Constitution and you violate that oath by engaging in insurrection or rebellion,” explains Raskin, you’re disqualified. “That’s what the Constitution itself says.”
But even the straightforward language of the Constitution is no match for John Roberts’s Supreme Court. On Monday, Roberts and his fellow justices—conservatives and liberals alike—embraced a reading of the amendment that cleared the way for Trump to seek a second term. Trump now has an even better chance to reoccupy the White House he disgraced and endangered when he abandoned his oath of office and sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Today, the Supreme Court twisted the plain meaning of the 14th Amendment to clear the way for Donald Trump to stay on the ballot in all 50 states.https://t.co/iawr5JCg1n
— The Nation (@thenation) March 4, 2024
Yes, even the liberal justices twisted the meaning of the 14th Amendment to keep Trump on the ballot.
Quite literally, 'BUT WE SAID HE DID AN INSURRECTIONUH!!' https://t.co/qLKunZjTJE pic.twitter.com/vkcCLEd2r0
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) March 4, 2024
There was no insurrection, and Trump certainly didn't engage in it.
Deal with it.
— MatthewJshow (@MatthewJshow) March 4, 2024
They did not. You all are just crying cause you can't rig it now.
— Slender Mandalorian (@SlenderMando) March 5, 2024
An insurrection is a crime that must be adjudicated in a criminal court, you clowns.
— PunishedNixon (@NixonPunished) March 5, 2024
Has anyone even been charged with insurrection, let alone found guilty?
You are unanimously wrong pic.twitter.com/zrQ5ZMUFSt
— 🇺🇸🐘American Elephant🇺🇸🐘 (@TheElephantsKid) March 5, 2024
Banning Trump from the election is not going to happen liberals.
— Multi-Polar-World (@sayidcumar) March 4, 2024
If President Joe Biden is so agile and virile, I don't know what everyone is so worried about. They need Biden's opponent struck from the ballot in order to win?
I don't know how a 9-0 decision could be "twisted" or why the liberal justices decided to help Trump take back the White House and end democracy. They know we can all read the Constitution ourselves, right? Start with proving there was even an insurrection, and then prove to us how Trump participated in it.
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