Good day all. I missed this story about the New Hampshire State Attorney General looking to use the 14th Amendment to keep the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump, off the New Hampshire ballot using the 14th Amendment.
There have been a few morons and idiots who have said that President Trump is ineligible to run claiming that he instigated an insurrection on January 6th. The claim is garbage for a number of reasons, the biggest being, there was no insurrection, just a protest that got out of hand. (They also ignore President Trump’s remarks to go to the capitol in a peaceful manner)
I already knew that the New Hampshire RINO governor, Chris Sununu is a never Trumper. (He’s part of the Bush/Cheney Globalist wing of the Republican Party) Now the state Attorney General is considering attempting to use the 14th Amendment to block President Trump from the ballot. Here are the details from Breitbart:
New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan (R) is consulting with the state attorney general to determine if the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment empowers him to keep former President Donald Trump off the 2024 presidential ballot.
Allow me to save this RINO fool some time. It doesn’t. Here is the actual text:
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
This was written after the Civil War and was aimed at the old Confederate politicians. To my knowledge, it was never used. There is also the small problem that there was no insurrection, no matter how much the Deep State Uniparty keeps claiming there was. If there had been, then you would have seen most of the Democrats and a large number of Republicans decorating lamp posts. This is also something that ONLY congress can declare.
As secretary of state, Scanlan oversees New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary that will take place at the beginning of 2024. However, Scanlan has caught wind of scholars’ recent arguments that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Disqualification Clause prohibits Trump from being on the presidential ballot.
That disqualification argument boils down to Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which says that a public official is not eligible to assume public office if they “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the United States, or had “given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof,” unless they are granted amnesty by a two-thirds vote of Congress.
Which is not what happened. In point of fact, you could name a large number of current Democrat office holders as insurrectionists due to their backing the riots. Now the reason for this is rather simple and it boils down to the GOP(e) RINO’s Never Trumpism.
Trump holds a 20-point lead over his Republican challengers in New Hampshire, the latest Echelon Insights survey found.
Still, a growing number of legal scholars on both the left and the right have proposed Trump be disqualified from the 2024 election based on the “insurrection” language cited in the Fourteenth Amendment.
Almost every single one of these alleged “Scholars” is either a Deep State Uniparty Establishment shill or a hard left Democrat. (Or there any other kind these days?)
As Breitbart News reported:
[Former Clinton administration labor secretary Robert] Reich was recently joined by legal scholars William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, both Never Trump members of the otherwise conservative Federalist Society, who wrote in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review that Section 3 “disqualifies former President Donald Trump, and potentially many others, because of their participation in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election.”
This weekend, legal scholars J. Michael Luttig and Laurence H. Tribe joined the chorus, in The Atlantic. They cited the fact that Trump has been indicted at both the state and federal levels for various crimes, including a federal indictment in Washington, D.C., and a state indictment for Fulton County, Georgia, for his efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.
Sorry Charlie. According to the Constitution of the United States, a document you really don’t have a grasp of, or just have a general contempt of, has very specific qualifications for someone running for president.
Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The Qualifications Clause set forth in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 requires the President to be a natural-born citizen, at least thirty-five years of age, and a resident of the United States for at least fourteen years.
There is nothing there that says someone who is under indictment, or even convicted can be denied the ability to run for the office of President. As for the 14th Amendment section, that is something only Congress can declare, and they haven’t for one big reason. January 6th does not meet the definition of an insurrection. As for Lawrence “Lost” Tribe? He flat out hates Trump, Republicans and considers most people to be beneath him.
Notably, Tribe called for Trump to be impeached on the day he took office, and floated various other theories that would allow for Trump to be impeached. Tribe also advised Democrats to use the unusual tactic of withholding articles of impeachment from the Senate once they had been passed by the House, during the first failed impeachment of President Trump in 2019-2020.
Now, what put this dumb idea into what passes for the mind of the Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire?
New Hampshire attorney Bryant “Corky” Messner, whom Trump previously endorsed in New Hampshire’s 2020 U.S. Senate race, is apparently responsible for getting the idea on Scanlan’s radar. Messner recently announced plans to sue to ensure Scanlan enforces the Fourteenth Amendment against Trump.
Oh goody. Another backstabber.
“I really don’t view myself as turning on Trump, as odd as that sounds,” Messner told ABC News. “I love this country. I’ve served this country. I’ve taken an oath to this country. My sons are serving right now and I believe someone’s got to step up to defend the Constitution.”
Perhaps you should actually try reading the constitution you worthless piece of disloyal RINO crap.
“Someone needs to take some action legally so this thing can get in front of the Supreme Court sooner rather than later to interpret this section,” he added.
Nice try slimeball. I voted for you once, it’s not happening again.
“Secretary Scanlan will be conferring with the New Hampshire Attorney General and other legal counsel on this issue; however, he believes any action taken under this Constitutional provision will have to be based on Judicial guidance,” Scanlan’s communications director Anna Sventek told ABC News.
The judicial branch doesn’t want to have anything to do with this. If Scanlan tries to polish his never Trump credentials and keeps the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump off the ballot, he may find himself being removed from office and kicked out of the state.
Scanlan said he views the January 6 Capitol riot as a “really unfortunate event in our history” but cautioned that he is not “really qualified to say whether that was an ‘insurrection’ or not.”
“I think that is for the courts to decide,” Scanlan added.
That this TransRepublican backstabbing piece of human debris can’t figure out if January 6th was an insurrection or not tells me that he is unqualified to hold any position of responsibility. Here is the general definition of an insurrection:
an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence.
The January 6th protesters were not trying to overthrow the government. At worst, they went overboard in their attempt to present their grievances to Congress. All you need to do is look at the videos of that day. Yes, some people went to far and were violent and they are being dealt with. Most acted like tourists. At the end of the day they left the building.
That is not how and insurrection works and if this idiot can’t figure that out, then he needs to resign from office and apologize to the citizens of New Hampshire for misrepresenting his competence. President Trump will be on the ballot and Scanlan will be looking for a new job. FYI, Scanlan might want to try rereading the New Hampshire State Constitution, specifically Article 10:
[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
June 2, 1784
I once got involved in an argument with a retired lawyer on a forum we were both on at the time. I hadn’t been involved in the discussions, just following them. The retired lawyer then made the comment that no state would ever allow it’s citizens to rebel. That’s was when I posted the text of Article 10 and a link to it. He was flabbergasted. Me? I was insufferably smug that I pulled one over a person trained in the law. Article 10 is brought up at protests now and then when the State Government starts acting to big for it’s britches.
The basic argument here is that several states have the right of rebellion written into their constitutions. However, as I have said before, the January 2th 2020 protests were not a rebellion or an insurrection. They were a very loud protest. Some people went to far of course, but most did not. President Trump told people to peacefully protest. He did not call for the overthrow of the government.
What we are seeing is the blind hatred of not just President Trump, but the tens of millions of people who backed and continue to back him. He showed people that they do have a voice and it looks like Scanlan and others are trying to snuff out that voice once and for all.
It’s time to call the Attorney General’s office and explain to him, politely but firmly that trying to keep President Trump off the ballot is wrong and unconstitutional. Tell his office that he might try reading the actual definition of an insurrection in the dictionary. What happened January 6th doesn’t meet the definition. A lot of what we have seen from the antic of the BLM and Antifa actually does. Ask him when he’s going to go after those groups.
***UPDATE***
As usual, before I even complete working on this, an update to the original story has been released on Fox News. Governor Sununu, Who is, to be honest, a never Trumper member of the Globailst Bush/Cheney wing of the Establishment GOP, apparently heard about the AG’s plans to try and keep the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump, off the ballot. His response was a firm “Not happening.
Despite being a vocal GOP critic of former President Donald Trump, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu — along with other state party officials — is staying away from a long-shot effort to keep Trump off the presidential ballot.
Sununu has repeatedly argued the former president — the current commanding front-runner for the Republican nomination — can’t win next year’s general election. The governor has teamed up with many of Trump’s rivals as they campaign in New Hampshire, which holds the first primary and second overall contest in the GOP nominating calendar. Sununu has repeatedly said he’ll endorse a presidential candidate ahead of his state’s primary.
But he appears to be staying away from Messner’s efforts to boot Trump from the primary ballot.
“The Governor first heard about this effort over the weekend. The Governor is not making any attempt or assisting any effort to keep anyone off the ballot. He has not spoken to and has nothing to do with Mr. Messner’s actions,” Sununu spokesman Ben Vihstadt told Fox News in a statement.
It looks like Sununu’s political survival instincts may have kicked in. As for Messner’s instincts? They aren’t working at all and he’s being congratulated on his successful political suicide.
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