(Christian Headlines)
Days after the Colorado Supreme Court barred former president Donald Trump from the state’s ballot, other states plan to follow suit ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
According to Town Hall, California’s Democrat Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis sent Secretary of State Shirley Weber a letter urging her to “explore every legal option to remove former President Donald Trump from California’s 2024 presidential primary ballot.”
“I am prompted by the Colorado Supreme Court’s recent ruling that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s ballot as a Presidential Candidate due to his role in inciting an insurrection in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021,” Kounalakis said in her letter. “This decision is about honoring the rule of law in our country and protecting the fundamental pillars of our democracy,” she claimed while urging California’s Secretary of State to prohibit the Golden State’s voters from voting for the candidate of their choosing, an outrageously un-democratic move.
“California must stand on the right side of history,” Kounalakis’s letter added. “California is obligated to determine if Trump is ineligible for the California ballot for the same reasons described in Anderson,” the case decided by Colorado’s high court on Tuesday evening. “The Colorado decision can be the basis for a similar decision here in our state,” Kounalakis insisted.
“The constitution is clear: you must be 40 years old and not be an insurrectionist,” she said, even though the U.S. Constitution states that the minimum age to run for president is 35.
Some Republicans and political insiders, however, contend that the Colorado Supreme Court ruling would only increase support for Trump as he seeks to win the Republican nomination in 2024.
“They’re doing all this stuff to basically solidify support in the primary for him, get him into the general, and the whole general election’s going to be all this legal stuff,” Florida Gov. DeSantis and fellow challenger to the GOP nomination said in response to a voter’s question in Urbandale, Iowa, Wednesday morning.
“It’s unfair. They’re abusing power, 100%,” DeSantis said. “But the question is, is that going to work? I think they have a playbook that unfortunately will work, and it will give [President Joe] Biden or the Democrat, whoever, the ability to skate through this thing.”
“They’re pissed,” one source familiar with discussions involving senior White House and Biden campaign officials said, adding that the ruling makes it look “like Colorado is attempting election interference through non-elected Democratic-appointed justices with funding from ‘shady left-wing donors.”
“We all hope Biden wakes up on Christmas morning to an A3 story in the Delaware News Journal saying that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of Trump,” the person added.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who endorsed Trump last month, called the decision “a thinly veiled partisan attack” on Trump.
“Regardless of political affiliation, every citizen
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