Colorado Booting Trump from Ballot ‘Absurd,’ ‘Unconstitutional’
BY Catherine Salgado
Legal expert Alan Dershowitz slammed the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove GOP frontrunner Donald Trump from the primary ballot, stating, “In the sixty years I’ve been practicing and teaching law, I’ve never seen a decision that is so antidemocratic and so unconstitutional”.
As PJ Media’s Matt Margolis wrote, “The Court, which is made up entirely of justices appointed by Democratic governors, decided without any evidence that Trump incited an insurrection and is therefore ineligible to run under the 14th Amendment.” It has been an interesting experience for some conservatives like me in the past year to find more than one topic where we are in total agreement with leftist Alan Dershowitz (for instance on Israel and Hamas). Dershowitz is no conservative or MAGA supporter, but he is a leftist who believes in the Constitution, a rare breed nowadays. And, according to him, the Colorado Supreme Court has no power or right to disqualify Trump under the Fourteenth Amendment.
“It is absurd,” Dershowitz said of the court’s decision on Newsmax’s National Report. “The idea that the Fourteenth Amendment was supposed to substitute for the impeachment provision, carefully drafted by the Framers, is wrong.” The Fourteenth Amendment’s Section 3 prevents those who “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof,” from holding office.
Alan Dershowitz: “In the sixty years I’ve been practicing and teaching law, I’ve never seen a decision that is so antidemocratic and so unconstitutional. It is absurd.” pic.twitter.com/yKta1133UR
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