Judge overseeing case to remove Trump from ballot agrees to order banning threats and intimidation
Judge overseeing case to remove Trump from ballot agrees to order banning threats and intimidation
The Colorado judge overseeing the lawsuit attempting to bar former President Donald Trump from The White House using a rare constitutional clause has issued an order prohibiting threats and intimidation regarding the case.
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado judge overseeing the first significant lawsuit to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot on Friday issued a protective order prohibiting threats and intimidation in the case, saying the safety of those involved — including herself and her staff — was necessary as the groundbreaking litigation moves forward.
“I 100% understand everybody’s concerns for the parties, the lawyers, and frankly myself and my staff based on what we’ve seen in other cases,” District Judge Sarah B. Wallace said as she agreed to the protective order.
The order prohibits parties in the case from making threatening or intimidating statements. Scott Gessler, a former Colorado secretary of state representing Trump in the case, opposed it. He said a protective order was unnecessary because threats and intimidation already are prohibited by law.
So, threats and intimation is otherwise Okay???
Per the article:
Scott Gessler, a former Colorado secretary of state representing Trump in the case, opposed it. He said a protective order was unnecessary because threats and intimidation already are prohibited by law.
And then they don’t explain further
Normally there are warnings. This is their warning.
The question, though, is, "Will it be enforced?"
The bigger question is, is this legal at all? Why can the government tell a private citizen that he can't be on the ballot of a private club? It doesn't matter what the private citizen did or didn't do, the government can't ban other people from associating with him.
Trumps violent group of degenerates certainly will do anything to protect Trump from justice.
In their world, Trump won, their party did things to secure elections, now that surely Trump will win, the Democrats are creating "trumped up" charges to prevent him from even running and trying to throw him in jail.
... I can understand why someone who sees the world that way would be very very angry about this. It's not factually accurate, but I understand the perspective.
I can’t understand being that stupid.
I refuse to indulge the perspective.
I certainly do not care about what people who ignore facts, truth and laws “believe” I dismiss their absurd falsehoods as do the courts.
Party of "law and order" will think of this is a political move rather then a criminal actually facing penalties for commiting numerous serious crimes he's been indicted with in court.
Law and order for thee but not for me. Just look at what the GOP is doing with the electoral maps in Ohio and the SC justice in WI. They don't believe in law and order they believe everyone should obey them abd be ruled by them anything else is seen as illegitimate to them.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado judge overseeing the first significant lawsuit to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot on Friday issued a protective order prohibiting threats and intimidation in the case, saying the safety of those involved — including herself and her staff — was necessary as the groundbreaking litigation moves forward.
“I 100% understand everybody’s concerns for the parties, the lawyers, and frankly myself and my staff based on what we’ve seen in other cases,” District Judge Sarah B. Wallace said as she agreed to the protective order.
It was sought by lawyers for the liberal group Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which is seeking to disqualify Trump from the ballot under a rarely used Civil War-era clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Dozens of lawsuits have been filed around the country seeking to disqualify Trump from the 2024 ballot based on the 14th Amendment clause barring anyone who swore an oath to the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection” against it from running for office.
Wallace has set an Oct. 30 hearing to discuss whether Trump needs to be removed under Colorado law prohibiting candidates who don’t meet qualifications for higher office from appearing on ballots.
He cited federal prosecutor Jack Smith last week seeking a gag order against Trump for threats made in his prosecution of the former president for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
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Wait what kind of hell hole do we live in where the government can ban people from the ballot of a private club? To be clear to the liberals here, the DNC and the GOP are NOT governmental organizations, and Primary's have nothing to do with our constitution or voting rights. Plus as was established in 2016, the primary vote itself is 100% optional by the parties involved. They could skip them all together, and just decide to run Trump as their nominee, and there is nothing the Federal Government can do about that. So what the fuck is this case?
It hasn't happened yet, so we don't know the exact legal justification for why it should or shouldn't be allowed. This is a lawsuit to remove Trump's name from the ballots.
- Courts have disqualified officials under the Fourteenth Amendment who played far less substantial roles in insurrections, and who, like Trump, did not personally commit violent acts. This includes Couy Griffin, a former New Mexico county commissioner who was a grassroots mobilizer, inciter, and member of Trump’s mob on January 6th (but did not commit violent acts or breach the Capitol building), and Kenneth Worthy, who served as a sheriff in a Confederate state (but did not take up arms in the Confederate army).7 If these individuals’ conduct warranted Section 3 disqualification, then surely Trump’s does as well.
- Since January 6, 2021, Trump has publicly affirmed his disloyalty to the Constitution and his allegiance to the insurrectionists who seized the Capitol for him. He has called the insurrectionists “patriots,”8 vowed to give many “full pardons with an apology” if he becomes President again,9 financially supported them,10 released a song with a choir of convicted January 6th defendants called “Justice for All,”11 and hugged on camera a convicted January 6th defendant who has said that Pence and Members of Congress who voted to certify Biden’s victory should be executed for treason.12
Without going through the whole legal document, there seems to be a fairly good reason for why Trump shouldn't be allowed to run for president, and removing his name from the primary elections would be one step towards that.