Quote:Former President Donald Trump is apparently not the only Republican that Democrats are trying to remove from the ballot. The left has begun going after other candidates using the 14th Amendment in their effort to influence the outcome of the 2024 election.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) has found himself in the crosshairs with a new lawsuit filed in his state seeking to disqualify him from holding office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, according to political commentator and Georgetown University Law School professor Jonathan Turley.

As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Republican Rep. Scott Perry.

It’s only the latest effort targeting congressional candidates as Democrats seek to bar opponents as “insurrectionists” for questioning the election of President Biden.

We have become a nation of Madame Defarges — eagerly knitting names of those to be subject to arbitrary justice.

Former congressional candidate Gene Stilp, who’s made headlines by burning MAGA flags with swastikas outside courthouses, filed the challenge.

Turley also notes another effort to disqualify a Republican in Pennsylvania.

The filing against Perry came the same day Pennsylvania Democratic state Sen. Art Haywood made public a complaint to the Senate Ethics Committee against his Republican colleague Doug Mastriano accusing him of playing a role in the plot to overturn the election.

Notably, in his effort to “hold insurrectionists accountable,” Haywood admitted he relied on the same evidence from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington that was used in the Colorado case.

The whole idea was already ridiculous when Democrats started trying to use the 14th Amendment to target Trump. Now, this issue has descended further into the realm of the absurd as they seek to disqualify as many Republicans from the ballot as possible.

Unfortunately, the 14th Amendment Strategem picked up momentum after Colorado’s Supreme Court voted to remove Trump. They were quickly followed by Maine, whose secretary of state made the same decision. Now, it appears that Democrats are launching a full-court press to see how many GOP candidates they can disqualify instead of allowing the people to decide who should represent them.

This entire ploy has become a ludicrous political sideshow as Democrats seek to increase their odds of winning in 2024. The left still refuses to acknowledge the hypocrisy of condemning conservatives for claiming the 2020 election was rigged as they are blatantly trying to rig upcoming elections.

The Supreme Court needs to shut this down right now. It is clear that the left has no real argument for disqualifying candidates by claiming they are insurrectionists. If this is allowed to continue, there won’t be anything stopping them from arbitrarily applying the insurrectionist label to anyone they don’t like. It is not as if there are non-partisan officials in these states to stop these cynical efforts to skew the outcomes of future elections. It has become clear that many left-leaning officials are more than willing to rubber-stamp these lawsuits due to political concerns.

On Wednesday, Trump filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse the Colorado ruling. Hopefully, the justices will put an end to this once and for all.

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(01-04-2024 04:37 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:Former President Donald Trump is apparently not the only Republican that Democrats are trying to remove from the ballot. The left has begun going after other candidates using the 14th Amendment in their effort to influence the outcome of the 2024 election.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) has found himself in the crosshairs with a new lawsuit filed in his state seeking to disqualify him from holding office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, according to political commentator and Georgetown University Law School professor Jonathan Turley.

As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Republican Rep. Scott Perry.

It’s only the latest effort targeting congressional candidates as Democrats seek to bar opponents as “insurrectionists” for questioning the election of President Biden.

We have become a nation of Madame Defarges — eagerly knitting names of those to be subject to arbitrary justice.

Former congressional candidate Gene Stilp, who’s made headlines by burning MAGA flags with swastikas outside courthouses, filed the challenge.

Turley also notes another effort to disqualify a Republican in Pennsylvania.

The filing against Perry came the same day Pennsylvania Democratic state Sen. Art Haywood made public a complaint to the Senate Ethics Committee against his Republican colleague Doug Mastriano accusing him of playing a role in the plot to overturn the election.

Notably, in his effort to “hold insurrectionists accountable,” Haywood admitted he relied on the same evidence from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington that was used in the Colorado case.

The whole idea was already ridiculous when Democrats started trying to use the 14th Amendment to target Trump. Now, this issue has descended further into the realm of the absurd as they seek to disqualify as many Republicans from the ballot as possible.

Unfortunately, the 14th Amendment Strategem picked up momentum after Colorado’s Supreme Court voted to remove Trump. They were quickly followed by Maine, whose secretary of state made the same decision. Now, it appears that Democrats are launching a full-court press to see how many GOP candidates they can disqualify instead of allowing the people to decide who should represent them.

This entire ploy has become a ludicrous political sideshow as Democrats seek to increase their odds of winning in 2024. The left still refuses to acknowledge the hypocrisy of condemning conservatives for claiming the 2020 election was rigged as they are blatantly trying to rig upcoming elections.

The Supreme Court needs to shut this down right now. It is clear that the left has no real argument for disqualifying candidates by claiming they are insurrectionists. If this is allowed to continue, there won’t be anything stopping them from arbitrarily applying the insurrectionist label to anyone they don’t like. It is not as if there are non-partisan officials in these states to stop these cynical efforts to skew the outcomes of future elections. It has become clear that many left-leaning officials are more than willing to rubber-stamp these lawsuits due to political concerns.

On Wednesday, Trump filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse the Colorado ruling. Hopefully, the justices will put an end to this once and for all.

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I say let the Democrats do it. At least they're honest in telling us they're going to ruin our lives. Unlike the Republicans who lie to us by saying they're going to fix things, and then they never do. By the time the SC intervenes on this, it will be too late.

The party of Democracy making it harder for people to vote for the candidate of their choice.

The thought stasi doing their thing.

Waiting for one of the lefties to now come on here and post a picture of Mike Lindell.

Don't ask me... It's just what they do when they've got nothing else.