No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
U.S. CONST. amend. XIV, § 3.
So! The Colorado Supreme Court booted (for now) traitor trump from the primary ballot based on the 14th Amendment. Finally, one court had the courage and the proper legal reasoning — that, mind you, Judge Sarah B. Wallace in an inferior court failed to attain — to confront the burning question: Did traitor trump engage in an insurrection, and, in so doing, is he barred from running for the presidency again given the language of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America? Their abridged answer is, Yes! But this post is not an analysis of the ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, for I have not read the opinions yet, but I will. Instead, I’ll take this time and space to fast forward to the only court that matters: SCOTUS. As usual, I remind morons of America that when it comes to legal questions, the sole opinion that matters is that of the highest court in the land. In short, WWSD?
I will cut to the chase. The radical uber-conservative RepubliKKKlan supermajority wing of SCOTUS will reverse Colorado’s decision because deep down inside, they want dictator traitor trump in office to end our democracy. Full stop! First, they will make permanent Colorado’s own administrative stay so that by the 5 January deadline, the secretary of state will be forced to keep traitor trump on the ballot. That’s the easy, quick move by SCOTUS. After that, the six radical conservative justices can take their time bending over backward to parse and contort every verb, adjective, noun, comma, and prepositional phrase of the Amendment in an attempt to conform their textualist and strict originalist theories to arrive at a predetermined result, and that outcome is this: Keep traitor trump on the ballot. Instead of reading the Amendment in the most straightforward and obvious light, they’ll find every misplaced punctuation mark, word, and irrelevant historical “fact” to bolster their “reasoning” as to why an insurrectionist should be permitted to run for president again. One can already hear the rumblings of RepubliKKKlans, especially traitor trump’s primary “opponents.” They claimed within minutes of the Colorado decision being released — their timing evinces none of them read the opinion — that the courts should not be barring traitor trump from the ballot; it is up to the voters to decide. With this feeble and illogical perspective, I begin my discussion in earnest as I think it is this line of “reasoning” SCOTUS will use in their decision-making to protect traitor trump.
Thus, we begin with the notion that the voters should decide. This, of course, is the coward’s way out of having to make a difficult legal decision that cuts against traitor trump, and it will be the way of SCOTUS. But putting the onus of such decisions on the shoulders of the voters is to make Section 3 of the 14th Amendment utterly inoperable and pointless, which I’m sure those who amended the Constitution in 1866 (ratified in 1868) never intended. No amendment is ever proposed and passed — by a very high standard, I may add — to be ignored and not used, especially when legislation could be enacted in the alternative. Fear not, though! SCOTUS will “fix” any controversy. And don’t get me started on how the Liberal justices will vote, for SCOTUS will insist upon a unanimous decision, which can only happen if Kagan, Sotoymer, and Jackson cave. In an attempt to show consensus and solidarity on this matter, the Liberal justices will help the pro-insurrectionist justices throw the Constitution into the trash heap of history all in the name of “can’t we all just get along.” On the most crucial Constitutional question of our time concerning an insurrectionist candidate trying to re-enter the White House to finish the job of ending America’s democracy, the justices will fail in line to make sure traitor trump gets his “fair” shot. I have no doubt!
Since the 14th Amendment is an eligibility requirement — akin to the age requirement for a president — it is not up to the voter to decide eligibility, for it is attaining the pre-requisites that get candidates on the ballot in the first place. Determining eligibility is not a “decision” to be made by the voters in the voting booth. Nowhere on a ballot does it instruct (has never instructed) a voter first to consider if a candidate has met the constitutional requirements to be on the ballot before casting a vote. Granted, the minimum age requirement, for example, is clear-cut compared to determining if someone engaged in an insurrection against the government, but that’s what the courts are for, and two Colorado courts found that traitor trump had, indeed, encouraged and condoned an attack on the Capitol to remain in office.
Thus, SCOTUS will defer to the “let the voters decide” outcome, but they will also attempt to legitimize their “reasoning” by claiming, no doubt, that the 14th Amendment does not apply to traitor trump. Instead of interrupting the Amendment as intended initially — insurrectionists can’t f***ing run for office — they’ll weasel their reasoning into something that resembles the following: The president isn’t explicitly mentioned as being barred, and this Amendment really only applies to those who engaged in the Civil War. The intended consequences of such an interpretation are this: Traitor trump and all subsequent candidates can legally attempt to overthrow the government and run for office to finish the job because the Constitution does not bar them from doing so. These six pro-insurrectionist justices will turn the 14th Amendment into the “insurrectionists get a free pass” amendment because, of course, they will. Makes total sense. Naturally, this is what the drafters of the 14th Amendment and those states that ratified it intended. Of course, it is only logical that these same people never considered future insurrectionists should be barred. Oh, no. History could not possibly repeat itself. Civil wars are a one-and-done event! Ugh! I live in stupid f***ing hell. Mark my words, f***tards! Traitor trump always wins because Americans are too f***ing G.D. stupid to stop him. And the courts enable him. The only question remaining is what will be the magnitude of improvement in traitor trump’s polling numbers as a result of the Colorado decision. And the polls will go up because no one f***ing cares about the Constitution or democracy, and I live in the dumbest f***ing country on the planet. Welcome to stupid America. The end is here, and SCOTUS is icing on the cake!