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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/trump-eligible-president-abdul-hassan/675669/

Back in 2012 this lawyer thought that the equal protections clause should guarantee immigrants can run for president. So he sued. And none other than Neil Gorsuch argued that yet States have the right to "protect" voters from constitutionally unqualified candidates.

Which is odd, because now they fascist sympathizers are currently arguing that states should let voters decide if Trump is qualified. Hmmm.

FTA:

"Wallace also swatted away arguments from the Colorado GOP that state law gives the party, not election officials, ultimate say on which candidates appear on the ballot.

“If the Party, without any oversight, can choose its preferred candidate, then it could theoretically nominate anyone regardless of their age, citizenship, residency,” she wrote. “Such an interpretation is absurd; the Constitution and its requirements for eligibility are not suggestions, left to the political parties to determine at their sole discretion.”

Such obvious bullshit, and I'll give you an example from my own home state:

In the 2022 election, our previous governor was term limited and couldn't run again.

The secretary of state found that the leading candidate did not meet Oregon residency requirements and banned him from the ballot.

Stuff like this is the JOB of the secretary of state. It's literally what they do.

https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/politics/state/2022/01/06/secretary-state-rules-kristof-ineligible-run-oregon-governor/9119121002/

"The Oregon Constitution requires a candidate for governor to have been a "resident within this state" for three years prior to the general election.

Evidence reviewed by elections officials showed Kristof was instead a resident of New York until late 2020 or early 2021, having lived in New York for 20 years, maintained a New York driver's license, received mail at his New York address, filed income taxes in New York and, as recently as November 2020, voted in New York."

So if a candidate isn’t on the ballot in a given state does that simply mean it’s impossible for them to win those votes in the electoral college? Does a candidate have to be on the ballot in all 50 states to run for the presidency?

If this holds, what’s the precedent set for his coconspirators and their runs for political office?

Where does Trump find the energy to participate in so many legal battles at once?

I'm gonna guess it's Ritalin™ and Diet Coke™ ✨

These headlines about Trump don't make Trump look stupid .... they make America look stupid.

Seriously, the way he runs circles around courts and the judiciary is turning the American legal system into a joke.

IANAL though I thing if Trump is off of the ballot in CO then that could set some precedent to be referred to that would make it easier in other states (and law suits) to follow

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A judge has rejected three more attempts by former President Donald Trump and the Colorado GOP to shut down a lawsuit seeking to block him from the 2024 presidential ballot in the state based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.”

The flurry of rulings late Friday from Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace are a blow to Trump, who faces candidacy challenges in multiple states stemming from his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection.

A post-Civil War provision of the 14th Amendment says US officials who take an oath to uphold the Constitution are disqualified from future office if they “engaged in insurrection” or have “given aid or comfort” to insurrectionists.

She said the key question of whether Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has the power to block Trump from the ballot based on the 14th Amendment “is a pivotal issue and one best reserved for trial.”

Wallace also cited a 2012 opinion from Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, when he was a Denver-based appeals judge, which said states have the power to “exclude from the ballot candidates who are constitutionally prohibited from assuming office.” She cited this while rejecting Trump’s claim that Colorado’s ballot access laws don’t give state officials any authority to disqualify him based on federal constitutional considerations.

The current GOP front-runner, Trump denies wrongdoing regarding January 6 and has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges stemming from his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

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