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It’s not just Trump: Democrats are moving to bar Republicans from ballots nationwide
nypost.com ^ | January 3, 2024 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 01/04/2024 5:04:15 AM PST by lowbridge

As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Rep. Scott Perry.

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But what’s chilling is how many support such efforts, including Democratic officeholders from Maine’s secretary of state to dozens of members of Congress.

New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell sought to bar 126 members of Congress under the same theory for challenging the election before Jan. 6, 2021.

Rep. Cori Bush’s similar legislation to disqualify members got 63 cosponsors, all Democrats, including New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman and Ritchie Torres and Squad members Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

When Maine’s secretary of state disqualified Trump, three in the state’s congressional delegation — Sens. Angus King (I) and Susan Collins (R) and Rep. Jared Golden (D) — condemned the decision. But others supported the antidemocratic action.

The grounds were virtually identical to those of Stilp. He accuses Perry of supporting challenges to Biden’s election and opposing its certification.

Of course, he ignores Democratic members who sought to block certification of Republican presidents under the very same law with no factual or legal basis.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin sought to block certification of the 2016 election result — particularly ironic since he’s a leading voice calling for Trump to be disqualified.

He insisted last week on CNN that the effort to prevent citizens from voting for Trump is the very embodiment of democracy: “If you think about it, of all of the forms of disqualification that we have, the one that disqualifies people for engaging in insurrection is the most democratic because it’s the one where people choose themselves to be disqualified.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: ballots; cheating; civilwar; democratparty; elections; fascists; insurrection; rigging; totalitarians; trump; voting
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To: lowbridge

“ Rep. Cori Bush’s similar legislation to disqualify members got 63 cosponsors, all Democrats, including New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman and Ritchie Torres and Squad members Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.”

Pay close attention here. This is what is happening. Do you want the likes of them running the show? Because that is what is happening. More and more morons are voting and putting angry racists like them in power.


21 posted on 01/04/2024 5:48:40 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: lowbridge

The Uniparty just became a reality.


22 posted on 01/04/2024 5:55:43 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Lurker

They’re trying to start a war.

Trying? They have already won. Welcome to the one party system which is the only true democracy were people get their say at all times ... unless it conflicts with the Party.


23 posted on 01/04/2024 5:58:18 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: lowbridge

Look into the history of what Democratic Attorneys General in Texas did to Governor Rick Perry, or Congressman Tom Delay.


24 posted on 01/04/2024 6:03:34 AM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Lurker

Yout tagline.


25 posted on 01/04/2024 6:07:53 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: cowboyusa

They prove it true every single day.

L


26 posted on 01/04/2024 6:12:04 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: lowbridge

How Putin of them.


27 posted on 01/04/2024 6:18:06 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: HYPOCRACY; lowbridge; M Kehoe; Lurker; GOPJ; Openurmind; HandBasketHell; usconservative; ...
I agree.

Because their agendas do NOT have popular support, they must resort to illegality and chicanery to shift elections.

They are doing this to see what they can get away with. It is the same thing they did with the election of 2020.

And so on.

Because we are (HOPEFULLY) watching rules on mail-in ballots, becoming stricter about litigation windows, aware of the dangers of the likes of Zuckerberg donating hundreds of millions of dollars for drop boxes, enforcing mandatory surveillance, being mindful of mail in ballot counting procedures, tightening and enforcing chains of custody, all of these things are less likely to be as successful in illegally shifting the balance to Leftists in the 2024 election than they were in the 2020 election.

Their new illegal endeavor is getting Republicans barred from the tickets. They have succeed in the short term, and perhaps, even though they know it is illegal, they hope to throw a monkey wrench in the process for Republicans. Basically, they are using Electoral Lawfare in an attempt to shift the balance.

It will tie up Republicans in court battles, cost them money and time, all done in a compressed time frame.

Just like the challenges to the election were tied to inflexible time limitations.

And it is all deliberate. By intent. Coordinated. Not a coincidence.

The Left wants to paint all non-Leftists as Nazis. If we are painted as Nazis, everyone knows any actions, ranging from illegal electoral implementation and Electoral Lawfare, to outright murder is morally justified.

If we don't get a handle on this and crush it, as a nation, our Republic is 100% finished, and that is a certainty.

The way I see it, In our Republic, there fundamentally exists a two-part covenant between a legitimate government and the citizenry:

  1. The elections that elect those we agree to be governed by must be free and fair.

  2. Those who govern must live by the same laws as those they govern.

In my eyes, it is that simple.

And both components of that covenant have been broken. As it stands now, we no longer have a legitimate government.

28 posted on 01/04/2024 6:29:46 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: blueunicorn6

“I pledge allegiance to the Democrat party and the money I hope it steals from me so I can get lots of free stuff”

Fixed


29 posted on 01/04/2024 6:37:47 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: rlmorel

Well said and good post. The only problem is all of it is fruitless when the judges have the power to keep everyone from presenting any evidence at all to support their claims. And even if they do allow evidence they have the sole power to just throw it all out and not let it go any further. Appeal? Same exact kind of judges with a different jurisdiction.

These judges are given far far too much power. On their level they are dictators no one can argue against. They have the power to play God and send you to hell if they want even if they are undeniably wrong and corrupt.


30 posted on 01/04/2024 6:42:47 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: lowbridge
Posted this in the other thread specifically about Scott Perry. The Rats know this Stalin-esque suppression of their political enemies probably isn't going to work, but why shouldn't they try?

It's a no-risk venture; the Stalinists have 100% control of the "mainstream" media, and the Republicans are absolutely not going to fight back in the sense of doing the same to election-denying (2016) Democrats like the racist homeboy from Brooklyn who is highly likely to be Speaker of the House next January.

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As I've mentioned before concerning Perry, the attack on him -- as the LONE conservative Republican in Congress from the entire northeastern U.S. -- even if this illegal move to bar him from the ballot does not succeed (fully aided and abetted by the corrupt PA Secretary of State, the corrupt PA Democrat Supreme Court, etc.) the idea is simply to generate as much negative publicity for Perry as possible and jeopardize his re-election chances as much as possible.

His district is only slightly right-leaning and getting worse by the day. It was a safe district as configured back in 2011 and Perry first won it in 2012 when ultra-squishy Republican Todd Platts retired.

PA District 10 Demographics & Election Results

The thoroughly corrupt PA Democrat Supreme Court seized control of the redistricting process in 2018 -- when no redistricting was even called for -- and implemented a severe Democrat gerrymander which flipped several congressional seats from R to D and greatly endangered 2 others (Perry's district being one of those).

Actions such as these by black-robed Democrat tyrants in places like PA, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia were the ONLY reason the Democrats controlled the House after 2018. Think about the impact that had on the Trump presidency and its aftermath.

In the next redistricting in PA, the corrupt Court AGAIN seized control away from the GOP legislature -- which, thank to the Court's state-level gerrymander is no longer in GOP control -- and then screwed the Republicans AGAIN by taking away one more seat.

Perry has managed to survive so far, and the Rats inexplicably didn't even seriously challenge him in 2022.

But they are taking no chances this time.

31 posted on 01/04/2024 6:47:34 AM PST by PermaRag (Joo Biden is not my President)
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To: HandBasketHell
Through the initiative petition process, Oregon has barred legislators with more than 10 days unexcused absence from work from seeking re-election.

Denying a quorum had become the last recourse on some gun legislation. It’s a tactic that the Dims had employed, as well.

32 posted on 01/04/2024 6:50:41 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: lowbridge

BTTT


33 posted on 01/04/2024 7:43:38 AM PST by nopardons
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To: rlmorel

“ The Left wants to paint all non-Leftists as Nazis.”

Funny how they project. Nazis WERE leftists. By their very name they are leftists. The American Left has painted Nazis as a right-winged menace. Nothing could be further from the truth. All the evil in the world comes from the left, but leftists must present themselves as the righter of past wrongs.


34 posted on 01/04/2024 7:53:39 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: bk1000

Actually the term is “Fascists”. Nazi stands for “National Socialist”, so they avoided using Nazi, because it would imply that they were fellow socialists.


35 posted on 01/04/2024 7:55:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge

Democrats one party plan not going well exposed by the day and the yellow media can’t help them.


36 posted on 01/04/2024 8:05:54 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: lowbridge

I have been saying this and saying this. Ain’t I been saying it? (cue Russell Case-—Randy Quaid-—from “Independence Day”).

President Trump was not sui generis here. He was not unique. He wasn’t a “one and done.”

This ALWAYS was the opening test case for DemoKKKrats everywhere to use on all, and I repeat, ALL Republicans. If you think DeSoros or Nick Knack Paddywhack Give a Uke a Bomb or White Lizzo are safe? Think again.

Kollyfornia has already drawn up legal papers accusing DeSoros of “kidnapping” re the illegal criminals he sends there. Now, wanna see what they do next? Try “child trafficking.”

There is NO WAY you or DeSoros or Nick Knack can throw Trump under the bus and not get hit by the back tires too.


37 posted on 01/04/2024 8:20:36 AM PST by LS
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To: lowbridge
Another HUGE...

38 posted on 01/04/2024 8:29:17 AM PST by conservative98
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To: HandBasketHell

The RINO’s are useful idiots. Their time will come when the rest of the communists more immediate enemies are removed. When it happens the looks on the Bush/Haley type faces will be stunned disbelief or one of satisfaction.


39 posted on 01/04/2024 8:48:40 AM PST by sarge83
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To: Openurmind

You are 100% correct. Absolutely.

Judges have a huge amount of power, and the Left (as seen vividly in the actions of Marc Elias, one of the biggest scumbags on the face of the earth) completely harnesses the power of Leftist judges to achieve their agenda, because they know they cannot do it via the ballot box.

They have become adept at using judges to illegally implement power, bypassing the legislative branches of our government.

We don’t do the same, because we “follow the rules”. We still think we live in a Constitutional Republic.

How we change this back to what it should be, I don’t know. I don’t want to “do what they do” because we will never be as good at it as they are.

You cannot out-left a real Leftist, though the RINO’s do try.


40 posted on 01/04/2024 9:01:03 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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