All Things Trump: the story continues...

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A rather less readable argument in favor of Trump being kept on the ballot. This fellow is also an expert on constitutional law and it seems likely that at least the 'conservative' majority on the court will go with his line of thinking. I'm not convinced that the minority is going to be willing to dissent in such a potentially volatile situation.

'The Meaning and Ambiguity of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment'

Abstract:

Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment disqualified anyone from serving in the House or Senate, or as a presidential elector, if they had betrayed their oath of fealty to United States and joined the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Whether Section Three accomplishes anything more remains unclear as a matter of history and ambiguous as a matter of constitutional text. Section Three does not expressly (1) apply to future rebellions or insurrections, (2) apply to persons elected as President of the United States, (3) apply to persons seeking to qualify as a candidate for the Presidency, or (4) indicate whether the enforcement of Section Three requires the passage of enabling legislation.

Prior drafts of Section Three included versions that expressly named the office of the President of the United States, expressly banned presidential candidates from qualifying as a candidate, and expressly applied to both past and future rebellions. Congress omitted all of this language from the final version of Section Three. This final language led the best lawyer in the House to assume that the text did not include the office of the President. Although a single member disagreed, their exchange went unreported in the press, leaving open the possibility that less sophisticated members of the public might also read the text as excluding the office of the President. The exclusion would not have been "absurd" since the Electors Clause ensured that only properly constructed slates of electors could vote for the President.

Key framers and ratifiers also expressly insisted that Section Three would not be self-executing. As Thaddeus Stevens explained, Section Three “will not execute itself,” and at least some participants in the ratifying assemblies expressly agreed (no one claimed otherwise). As far as future rebellions were concerned, the historical record reveals both framers and ratifiers dividing over the text’s possible application to future insurrections. In sum, the historical record supports Lyman Trumbull’s explanation of the original understanding and scope of Section Three: The provision was “intended to put some sort of stigma, some sort of odium upon the leaders of this rebellion, and no other way is left to do it but by some provision of this kind.” Whether the public understood the ambiguous text as allowing for anything more remains historically unclear.

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[L'Emmerdeur]

One of 'Day One Dictator's' eager lackeys is salivating in anticipation. The greasy 'Leninist' Bannon joins in the drooling.

'Kash Patel tells members of media, government: "We're going to come after you" in Trump's 2nd term'

For weeks on the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has been suggesting the possibility that, if elected, he would use the office of the presidency to seek retribution against his political enemies, promising to "root out" opponents who "live like vermin" and saying he wouldn't be a dictator "except for Day One."

Now, a key political ally who's been touted as a possible acting attorney general under Trump is doubling down on those threats, vowing to target those he called "conspirators" among journalists and government officials during a potential second Trump administration.

"We will go out and find the conspirators not just in government, but in the media," said former Defense Department official Kash Patel during an appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast.

Patel, who served as chief of staff in the Department of Defense during the Trump administration and Trump's counterterrorism adviser on the National Security Council, was asked by Bannon if he would be able to deliver "serious prosecution and accountability" against their political opponents during a second Trump presidency.

"We're going to come after you whether it's criminally or civilly," Patel said of Trump's political foes. "We'll figure that out."

"This is just not rhetoric," Bannon said. "We're absolutely dead serious."

"You cannot have a constitutional republic and allow what these Deep Staters have done to the country," said Bannon, repeating unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about sinister elite groups controlling the country.

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[Patel's] comments come as Trump has ratcheted up his anti-government and anti-media rhetoric on the campaign trail. Last week he called for a government crackdown on MSNBC after the network criticized him on air.

"Our so-called 'government' should come down hard on them and make them pay for their illegal political activity," Trump wrote on his social media site, adding, "Much more to come, watch!"

[Joe]

The Colorado GOP is threatening to pull out of the primary and have a caucus if Trump is barred from the primary.

Of course, they've been trying to get out of the primary and hold a caucus anyway, so that's nothing new.

The best way to steal an election for Trump is not to have one.

“We all understand that this kind of proves the point of the lawsuit, that the state has imposed upon the Republican Party an unconstitutional threshold, and the numbers bear that out,” Williams told Republicans after announcing the results.

I guess a supermajority is always going to be 'unconstitutional' when the vote doesn't go your way.

Williams isn't much for elections, unless it elects him.

His attorney for this latest lawsuit is a guy named John Eastman. You may have heard of him. He's quite popular in Georgia I hear.

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[L'Emmerdeur]

Article from The Detroit News.

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Trump charges
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/01/11914938 ... ent-counts

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Making America great again. Which again? 1913? 1950s?

[Tero]

Donald Trump revenge show...to be continued.

[Tero]

Is it a rally? (S Carolina). Nikki Haley rally. 7:30 has GOP luminaries. 9:43 The Donald appears. The end is the same as the first video part.

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They said they were too busy frosting cookies.

CNN:
An expedited review of the issue is already underway at the DC Circuit, which has scheduled oral arguments for January 9. The election subversion trial is currently set to begin in March.

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[Brian Peacock]

Rudy declares bankruptcy.