And she’ll disintegrate into a fine powder of clay sized particles (approximately 1 micron in dia.) and will be dispersed by the airflow from the nearest convenient HVAC register.
Judge Luttig and Harvard Prof. Lawrence Tribe were on “The Last Word” with Ali Velshi last nite. They were adamant that 1) the CO opinion was unassailable and 2) the SCOTUS would have to really stretch to do anything but affirm.
Judge Luttig thought they might simple let it stand and that other states (WI, MI, etc.) would see that as a signal to follow suit. The truth is this is novel and as predictable as the spread of coronavirus was in 2019. Nobody really knows.
See? People are disgusted with MAGAs and if possible, will find ways to dilute their influence.
There are more of us than they are of them. We have the power.
The lawyer representing a group of Michigan voters trying to knock former President Donald Trump off the Feb. 27 Republican primary ballot said Wednesday a Colorado Supreme Court decision this week doing so in that state is “a very positive development” and provides a road map for the Michigan Supreme Court to follow suit.
“Across the board, the court found that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment (which bars anyone who has engaged in insurrection from running for federal office) applies to Trump,” said Mark Brewer, an attorney and former Michigan Democratic Party chairman. “It’s very supportive of what we’re trying to do here.”
Having lost the argument to bar Trump, who is running for reelection next year, from the ballot before a Court of Claims judge and the state’s Court of Appeals, Brewer has already asked the Michigan Supreme Court to take up the case on an expedited basis. In both Brewer’s case and one brought by Wayne County activist Robert Davis, the plaintiffs have argued that Trump’s actions trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and egging on a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol as Congress met to certify Joe Biden as president, meets the standard of insurrection and disqualifies Trump.
As in several other states where the question has been raised, Michigan’s lower courts have found that the question of whether Trump is disqualified under Section 3 is one for Congress — at least in terms of a primary election — and not the state’s courts or election officials to decide.
But the Colorado Supreme Court’s split decision, already on hold pending the question of whether the U.S. Supreme Court will settle the matter, turns that rationale on its head, stating definitively that there is nothing in the 14th Amendment, which was written in response to the Civil War, that requires Congress to make that determination, only that the House and Senate can lift that disqualification if they so choose.
Meanwhile, I’m enjoying the show as Trumpers around the country whine, threaten and pretend they really want Trump on that ballot, because we know some of them would like nothing better than to see him gone.
When I bicycle commuted to work there was always a spare set of clothes in the pannier with the computer, for extra cushion and unplanned work related fiascos. The Monday and Friday commutes saw me carrying more stuff than most cycle tours I’ve taken.