These are likely representatives of the type.
Posted on 01/18/2024 1:18:19 PM PST by llevrok
A Thurston County judge ruled against a motion that would bar former President Donald Trump from being on Washington presidential primary ballot.
Judge Mary Sue Wilson heard arguments Thursday morning at the county courthouse before deciding the state statute the lawsuit cited in its motion does not apply to her jurisdiction. The motion was filed by a group of eight Kitsap County voters, with their representative arguing to the court that Trump should be disqualified to run for office under a section of the U.S. Constitution due to his involvement with the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“Congress has found quite clearly that Donald Trump aided and abetted an insurrection in the Jan. 6 report,” David Vogel, the voters’ legal representative, said.
The 14th Amendment prohibits anyone who has served as an officer of the U.S. from holding any office if they have engaged in insurrection or rebellion. But the Washington State Republican Party fought against the motion.
“People alleged that Barack Obama was ineligible for the presidency, claiming he was born in Kenya,” Joel Ard, representing the Washington State Republican Party, argued in court. “That’s not a basis for removing those names from the primary ballot.”
Ard also argued that political parties, not the state, are responsible for who appears on primary ballots.
Judge Wilson eventually ruled that the Washington secretary of state made no “error” when he placed Mister Trump’s name on the ballot.
“The court determines that the secretary of state acted consistent with his duties,” Wilson said in court Thursday. “An order directing the secretary of state to take different action, an order from this court, is simply not supported by the statutes and not supported by the affidavit of the electors.”
The motion was also filed in Kitsap County, but Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Bassett declined to rule on it, according to the Seattle Times, as he thought the case should be heard in Thurston County, the home of the state capitol.
Additionally, Deputy Solicitor General Carl Smith, representing Secretary of State Steve Hobbes’ office, stated they are not taking a position regarding Trump’s name on the ballot.
Nevertheless, following Judge Wilson’s ruling, ballots and voters’ pamphlets for the March 12 Presidential Primary are moving forward and will begin to be printed. According to Hobbs, the Democratic Party submitted three candidates — Joseph R. Biden Jr., Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson — while the Republican Party submitted five names — Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie and Donald J. Trump.
This motion follows similar debates seen in other states. Last month, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump wasn’t eligible to run for president, a decision now being challenged in the Supreme Court. Maine’s Democratic secretary of state followed Colorado’s decision with the same ruling for her state.
Trump’s ballot eligibility has been challenged in at least 35 states, as of this reporting.
Missouri says they’ll throw Biden off the ballot if Trump gets removed.
I suppose the rats would be running someone else anyway but at this point do you need. a valid reason remove whoever the rats choose since Trump was not convicted of wrong doing for 1/6?
This whole thing is chaos.
see Washington state House Bill 2150
The Supremes will have the last say and override these fascist states.
“Congress has found quite clearly that Donald Trump aided and abetted an insurrection in the Jan. 6 report,” David Vogel, the voters’ legal representative, said”.
Did they? I thought this was still not a settled matter and was to go to court in March?
As I have stated over and over. all the blue states will do this, so it’s time fore the red states to do the same with Biden.
The fact we all have allowed this banana republic travesty is a sign our “turn the other” cheek religious inhibitions have great flaws. We could be soon be like the Chinese and other political prisoners of religious conscience and that will not serve the religions well. Can’t remember the details but an author discussing his book about dissident Catholics in Slavic countries opposing the Soviets included one outspoken bishop. The interviewer asked what happened later. “Unfortunately he was grabbed and taken in a car one night and they later found his dead body dumped beside a road.”
The Left’s lawfare is based entirely upon vicious hate-—not law.
Bump
The Left is ally Lawless. The believe they are above the law.
And of course they want to destroy the Constitution.
These are likely representatives of the type.
communist Inslee is super pissed!
I'm not so sure. She is a Dimslee appointee (as are most Thurston County judges). Thurston county is the county where the state crapital is located and usually hears trials involving the state. My feeling that, even on the surface she went against her appointer, the fix is in to get the legislature to act against what they think are insavory candidates (ref: House Bill 2150)
Mary Sue Wilson is a judge for the Thurston County Superior Court in Washington. She was appointed to the court by Governor Jay Inslee in October 2014 to replace Judge Lisa L. Sutton, who was appointed to the Washington Court of Appeals.[1][2] She ran unopposed for election in 2015.[3] Wilson filed for re-election in 2016 and won automatically because she faced no challengers.
Thurston County? Named after the Jim Bacchus character on Gilligan’s Island?
They’re just making stuff up. The Senate acquitted Trump of all charges. So Congress found him innocent of aiding and abetting an insurrection.
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