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SCOTUS declined to hear AG Paxton’s Texas v. Pennsylvania

Angry Bear | October 27, 2023 7:38 am

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The Supreme Court declined to hear the case, Texas v. Pennsylvania. December 20, 2020.

Two days ago, during a press conference Rachel Scott drew the ire of Republicans as she asked a question of newly appointed House Speaker Mike Johnson. Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA) was instrumental in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

ABC News congressional reporter Rachel Scott began to ask Johnson whether he stands by his role in the scheme. His colleagues laughed at and booed her while she was still speaking. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) could be heard lamenting, “oh God,” as Scott asked her question. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) yelled, “Shut up! Shut up!”

Johnson himself shook his head and said, “Next question.” As noted by The New York Times, Johnson was “the most important architect of the Electoral College objections.”

In December 2020, the congressman gathered the support of 105 colleagues in an amicus brief backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit seeking to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s wins in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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Fred C. Dobbs says:

October 30, 2023 at 1:58 pm

In other Legal news …

Colorado Trial Will Consider Whether the 14th Amendment Disqualifies Trump

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NY Times – just in

Some constitutional experts argue that a clause in the amendment should bar Donald J. Trump from becoming president again, but that view is far from universal among legal scholars.

Something the nation has never seen before began playing out in a Denver courtroom Monday morning: a trial to determine whether a major party’s likely presidential nominee is eligible to be president at all.

The lawsuit, filed in September by six Colorado voters with the help of a watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, argues that former President Donald J. Trump is ineligible to hold office again under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. That section disqualifies anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the Constitution after having taken an oath to support it. …
- Fred C. Dobbs says:
  
  October 30, 2023 at 2:02 pm
  
  … The Colorado lawsuit is one of several efforts around the country to remove Mr. Trump from ballots under the 14th Amendment. Oral arguments in a case in Minnesota are scheduled to begin Thursday, and lawsuits have also been filed in New Hampshire and Michigan. Separately, Democratic legislators in California asked their state’s attorney general last month to seek a court opinion on Mr. Trump’s eligibility.
  
  Whatever verdicts come in these cases will not be final. They will almost certainly be appealed by the losing side, and the Supreme Court — which has a 6-3 conservative majority, including three justices appointed by Mr. Trump — is likely to have the final say.