'Astonishing and unprecedented': Conservative slams SCOTUS decision on Trump ballot

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By Matthew Chapman
Published March 4, 2024 5:37 PM ET

The Supreme Court's decision to restore former President Donald Trump to the ballot in Colorado and shut down any state decisions on Fourteenth Amendment disqualification was wrong, argued retired federal Judge Michael Luttig on CNN Monday.

Luttig, widely regarded as one of the founding intellectuals behind the modern-day conservative legal movement, has long been one of the strongest proponents of Colorado's decision, which had held that the Fourteenth Amendment's Insurrection Clause bars the former president from the ballot for his incitement of the January 6 attack.

"Judge Luttig, you predicted that the Supreme Court would affirm Colorado's decision to remove Trump from the ballot, calling Colorado's decision 'unassailable in every single respect under the Constitution,'" said anchor Jake Tapper. "I guess the justices didn't see it your way. What's your reaction?"

https://www.rawstory.com/scotus-colorado-trump/

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1. SCOTUS is tasking Congress with writing laws to clarify the 14th Amendment

How do you overturn parts of the Constitution with laws? That's backwards.

And, Sec 3 was the "self-executing" clause. You're OUT! But you can get back in if 2/3 of Congress approves.

Now the whole section has been disqualified. What's the point of having a Constitution if SCOTUS ignores it or can't read it?

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2. Agreed why have one at all................

I bet a donut that they give him immunity..............call me a cynic..........but I have been a cynic ever since Nixon, Iran- Contra, Bush -Gore, Citizen United, gutting of the Voting Rights Act ......I apologize for the rant.....

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5. I agree

But it will be immunity using some tortured, pretzel, logic.

And another nail in the democracy coffin

[dlk]

3. This was a CYA decision to protect Ginny Thomas

Priorities…

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4. And whoever else gets called on the "favors" coming do to these 6 cretins............