Every Legal Option Must Be Explored to Remove Trump From California Ballot – Lt. Governor
Sputnik – 20.12.2023
WASHINGTON – California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis on Wednesday wrote to Secretary of State Shirley Weber demanding that she explore “every legal option” to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot.
“Based on the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling in Anderson v. Griswold (2023 CO 63), I urge you [Weber] to explore every legal option to remove former President Donald Trump from California’s 2024 presidential ballot,” Kounalakis wrote in her letter.
Kounalakis said she was prompted by the ruling to conclude that Trump is ineligible to appear on the state ballot as a presidential candidate due to his alleged involvement in the so-called insurrection on January 6, 2021. Kounalakis also said Colorado’s decision could serve as the basis for a similar decision in California.
“California must stand on the right side of history,” the letter said. “The constitution is clear: you must be 40 years old and not be an insurrectionist.”
The White house has said on its website that the US Constitution lists three qualifications for the presidency – the president must be at least 35 years old, be a natural born citizen and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years.
On Tuesday night, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump is disqualified from the 2024 Republican primary ballot due to his role in the events on January 6 at the US Capitol, citing the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. The amendment restricts people who are engaged in insurrection from holding public office.
The Trump campaign described the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling as being a “flowed decision” and said they will appeal.
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There is not a scintilla of evidence that Trump plotted or incited against the US government. On the contrary, Trump encouraged his lawyers to gather evidence of massive voter fraud that put the “basement campaigner” Biden ahead of Trump on election day. Trump’s attorneys would have proven his case but for the conspiracy against him and his attorneys, all of whom have been indicted on conspiracy charges. What’s really at stake here? By decapitating Trump, Biden and his Eastern Establishment backers expect to benefit from the tens of millions of Trump votes that won’t be cast if Trump isn’t on the ballot. Trump supporters have already had their heads explode watching their idol indicted four times by a political operative in the Democratic Party. But throwing Trump off the ballot, thus preventing his reelection, it still will not win Biden reelection. For that they will need to reactivate Hammer and Scorecard.
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This pisses me off so bad. I guess I’m going to have to spend the next few days looking into where and whether I can make my displacer known as a californian. I voted for Trump and 2016, re-registered from Democrat to Republican so I can vote for him in the primary first actually, voted for him again in 2020, and I damn sure intended to vote for him in 2024. It’s also disgusting that we can’t trust the Supreme Court is going to resolve this, they should, and odds are on our side, but Justice Roberts is corupt and seems to hate Trump. Clarence Thomas and two or three others are legit, that wasn’t enough to get the court on the hole to hear Ken Paxton’s suit on the 2020 election, which involved 17 States on each side of the suit. I’m hoping, because they punted it on that and kicked the can down the road, that they realize they can’t do that again. This needs to be resolved, and it needs to be done on the basis of constitutional law which means if they do their jobs right, Trump stays on the ballot. Unfortunately, ballots are going to be printed soon, need to be printed within 90 days of the election are going to be used for, and this seems to be all about disrupting that. Trump could come out on top of all this crap but the name removal, and by the time he does it will become an excuse for why they misprinted ballots without his names on it and sent them out to voters. The thing that makes this most vile is, aside from the fact that the 14th Amendment doesn’t actually apply to a president like this, because it pertains to appointed officers, not elected officials… is that they are asserting their opinion that he committed insurrection as a substitute for him being convicted of that, or even charged. He has been indicted in several states, but none of the charges read ‘insurrection”. So the ruling they’ve made has no actual legal basis.
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