Posted on 02/06/2024 8:53:22 AM PST by CFW
The left’s insatiable — and arguably quixotic — quest to keep former President Donald Trump off the ballot is a team effort to be sure. But two well-funded leftist groups in particular are leading the charge in the campaign to take Trump down with a bogus reading of the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause.”
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the lawfare arm of political strategist David Brock’s network of Democrat-aligned organizations, has dominated national headlines with its Colorado lawsuit — the only “successful” challenge to Trump’s primary ballot status to date.
The banal-sounding Free Speech for People laid the groundwork for the constitutionally suspect challenges after Trump left office in 2021. The nonprofit has thrown its weight behind a so-called “Section 3” effort, browbeating election offices nationwide to remove Trump from the Republican primary ballot on the spurious grounds that the 45th president promoted an insurrection to overturn the 2020 election. They insist he incited the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“What we’re seeing in Colorado, Maine, even in Wisconsin … is a complete abuse of the Constitution. This is not at all what it was designed to do, the insurrection clause, that they cite,” said Parker Thayer, investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, operator of nonprofit and leftist activist tracker Influence Watch. “They are using bogus legal theories to try and keep one of the leading presidential candidates off the ballot, and they’re doing it entirely with left-wing dark money.”
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No individuals or groups should have the power to make those kinds of determinations.
That is NOT free elections and nobody is asking them to decide what is best for us and forcing it on us.
The phagg who founded the Soros funded Media Matters.
That’s right. Let the voters decide, not the courts!
STEW
Sick & Tired of Every Wokist
These groups have been known for a while yet once again the GOP sits on their hands and does nothing. Like the groups that threatened corporation who donated to mccain over obama in 2008
its a win/win for them
even if they lose
it ties up Trump’s resources, time and money
the process is the punishment
the only silver lining is that more people are waking up to the fact that this is a persecution not a prosecution
I know Mollie's on our side, but there's nothing quixotic and bogus about this effort. It's been a deliberate, calculated plan from the start to block Trump from the ballot via the Insurrection clause which is why the RATS had Ray Epps and his fellow instigators start the riot and get into the House so then every RAT and media scum could call what happened an insurrection which they continue to do to this very moment.
With that in place and no official charge against Trump ever made except by the non-binding clymers of the J6 committee (as I just realize why there haven't been formal charges made), RAT operatives around the country like in Colorado and Maine can claim he's disqualified because of insurrection and move to keep him off the ballot. Had he been formally charged and it failed as it likely would, none of these operatives could use insurrection as a reason to keep him off the ballot. Instead, they can claim it was insurrection in the absence of any official determination.
Obviously, they're hoping to taint him with the voters, but less obvious is that they're hoping for another John Roberts save in the Supreme Court like he did with Obamacare. To wit: No, you cannot keep Trump off the ballot for insurrection, but you can keep him off the ballot for other reasons of your own discretion.
This nation has turned its back on God and there will be chastisement.
CREW was founded by Norman Eisen and funded by George Soros
The Director of Free Speech for America is Ben Binswanger
Shenna Bellows (Maine Secretary of State) ,
Jena Griswold (Colorado Secretary of State)
They will fail. It is already proven Trump did not promote the insurrection.
Trump Punks the Perp Walk, Washing His Bloody Hand with George Webb (Feb 5, 2024)
https://rumble.com/v4ax15l-trump-punks-the-perp-walk-washing-his-bloody-hand-with-george-webb.html
"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
-Henry II, Rex Brittanica
They are out waving palestenian flags when not working on this project. Nazi/fascists to the core.
GOPe are useless couch potatoes wallowing in their cosy positions
They know their lives are at stake, like DT.
Had no idea that CREW was linked to Brock.
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