Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said that while he didn’t want to do it, he had to remind people of how “severe” the situation is.
A top Republican official in Missouri is threatening to remove President Joe Biden from appearing on the ballot as retaliation for the determination in two other states that Donald Trump doesn’t qualify because he “engaged in insurrection.”
“What has happened in Colorado & Maine is disgraceful & undermines our republic,” Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft wrote on the social media site X on Friday. “While I expect the Supreme Court to overturn this, if not, Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for @realDonaldTrump applies equally to @JoeBiden!”
Ashcroft’s post came shortly after the Supreme Court agreed to review a decision by Colorado’s high court that found Trump could be barred from the state’s primary ballot because of his actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Waaaahhhh my candidate got kicked off so I’m going to retaliate and try to kick the other guy off. Good luck at the Supreme Court.
With how stacked the Court is for righties, I wouldn’t be surprised.
They really think it was done for political reasons and is just a team sport
You may be giving them too much credit. They know what they tried to do.
This is going to be a sonofabitch of an election year no matter what the numbers are, isn’t it.
Don’t you just love it how they all completely ignore and fly over the actual reason why trump is being dumped? They just claim it’s a disgrace that trump is dropped, as if random people decided to do this on a whim, but will NEVER mention why they made that decision. Never mention that trump instigated an insurrection, we wouldn’t want people to get the wrong idea now, would we?
Just to fantasize a bit, it’d be hilarious if these “Duck season! Wabbit season!” Shenanigans resulted in both Democrats and Republicans mutually excluding each other from a majority of ballots, and third parties had to fill in the gaps.
I don’t like trump and agree he belongs in jail but how the democrats are doing it is wrong we are innocent until proven guilty in the court of law he is on trial right now but has yet to be convicted of a crime so he should not be removed until he is proven guilty in a court of law. The trail likely won’t be over until after the election so the are using dirty tactics to remove him before he is found guilty so I am not surprised if the start removing Biden from state ballots as well. We will see what the Supreme Court says but I would assume the would say the same but could very well be wrong nobody should vote for trump but we gotta do it correctly.
Why should he be treated any differently than anyone else that was disqualified under the 14th amendment?
The big distinction here would be that everyone else disqualified under Section 3 was a public officer in a major political organization (the CSA) who was in open war with the US. No question of fact whatsoever.
While Trump was too much of a wuss to openly lead his insurrection himself, so some government entity should probably be responsible for determining whether or not section 3 applies, and what standard they have to meet to do so. There are probably good arguments why qualification for a federal office isn’t properly decided by a state judge or official.
Firstly, the amendment does not require any conviction. It is simply a prerequisite. Secondly, Colorado literally held a trial to determine this. It was determined in a court of law after reviewing all the evidence and holding a trial that he was not eligible. This was not done “by the democrats”. This is the legal system and election officials doing their jobs
Is payback Law And Order?
Don’t forget that trump wished for his political enemies to “rot in hell” as part of his Merry Christmas message, , and he also shared a word cloud that prominently featured “revenge” and “dictatorship” with no context.
People who say “I’m not Trump” is not good enough of a reason to vote for a candidate are being petulant children. Trump has said he’d pardon all January 6th convicts if elected day 1. This will embolden political violence like none other, because if “your guy” gets in, you will face no consequences, so the amount of lying, cheating, and stealing when it comes to elections will go through the goddamn roof.
This man is on a hateful warpath. He will abuse the hell out of the office because of his ego. And people like the state secretary mentioned here will be in power while cheering him on.
Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for @realDonaldTrump applies equally to @JoeBiden!"
It does. The legal standard does apply equally to everyone. And in fact the same standard has applied for 155 years.
>The legal standard does apply equally to everyone. And in fact the same standard has applied for 155 years.
under the law, in it’s fairness, it is just as illegal for the billionaire to sleep under a bridge as it is for the homeless
fuck laws
also, fuck politicians.
“What has happened in Colorado & Maine is disgraceful & undermines our republic,”
What happened in the national capitol on Jan6 is disgraceful and undermines the republic.
The people trying to clean up after that mess are not the problem, you pandering old windbag.
I mean, good luck, you’ll have to provide better justification than revenge to keep it from being overturned.
They don’t care. It’s all about the grandstanding.
Yes if Joe Biden engages in insurrection then he should be excluded from the ballot. I just don’t think that’s particularly likely.
Yeah so THAT wouldn’t hold up to a SCOTUS hearing. Rather if it does we may as well ignore SCTOUS forevermore.
Why are the comments here acting like the SCOTUS stands for anything but toeing Republican line? The court is more stacked than it has been for decades and these people will gladly sell-out the Constitution to score political power for Republicans.
They didn’t let Trump argue his election lies. Sometimes they can surprise you.
My impression is they still know they must feign being apolitical and letting Trump argue election lies would be so far removed from reality that they know everything would change after that.
Whereas this case means all they need to say is, “let the voters decide” and the enlightened centrists, even some of the left, will nod their heads in agreement or just quietly bicker.
Is there an equivalent of /r/JustFuckMyShitUp here? Yikes, this guy is rocking one atrocious haircut.
“While I expect the Supreme Court to overturn this, if not, Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for @realDonaldTrump applies equally to @JoeBiden!”
Sure. If Biden launches his own insurrection I think no one would hold it against you.
While I expect the Supreme Court to overturn this, if not, Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for @realDonaldTrump applies equally to @JoeBiden!
If it applies equally to both, Biden shouldn’t be taken off since he hasn’t been found guilty of sedition ya dipshit.
