I feel compelled to write something about the Colorado Supreme Court decision that permits Donald Trump to be eliminated from the ballots in that state, but being it is so transparently stupid and lacks any, and I mean any, legal basis, I don’t know whether to laugh at the absurdity or order another couple thousand rounds of M855 5.56 green tips and .40 caliber hollow points.
I’m leaning toward the latter.
What this ruling does prove is that the American left will climb any mountain, cross any sea and swim any river to destroy any institution standing in the way of their agenda. Corrupting institutions like those of academia where participation is voluntary is one thing, but mutating the system of American jurisprudence, an institution where participation is required by our constitution, is a point of no return.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s words ring loudly in my head:
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
Rather than based on a finding of fact that President Trump committed any act of insurrection, these Colorado Walmart Greeters Cloaked in Black Robes anointed themselves judge, jury and executioner and like their genetic duplicates in the D.C. courts, decided to take it on themselves to apply a punishment for a crime that has never been charged, much less proven.
The Colorado Black Robed Walmart Greeters decided, in Kafkaesque fashion, that:
It is OK to admit obviously biased evidence from a Congressional Committee that the accused had no opportunity to refute (a violation of the Sixth Amendment).
Trying offenses in the media is constitutional and equal to a jury of your peers.
“Insurrection” is defined by a partisan media rather than as a matter of law and can be any protest of government the Democrats don’t like.
No one has a First Amendment right to speak against government or question its actions in any way and any speech critical of government is equal to an insurrection.
Trump violated Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment because we say he did, and we just can’t allow the people of Colorado to vote for someone Democrats don’t like.
Madness. Absolute and total madness.
There are no limiting principles here. If upheld, such a decision would lead to red candidates being removed from ballots in blue states and vice versa. This decision has truly landed America in third world territory.
This court has rendered itself illegitimate by issuance of this "decision" (which is more of a progressive primal scream than a legal decision), and as such, has ended the constitutional protection that we are all equal under the law.
John Locke wrote that “Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins.”
The important historical aspect of the American system has been its stability and consistency. Americans have always been able to rest assured that what a thing means today, it will mean tomorrow. America has frowned on ex post facto (retroactive) approaches to everything. We are “innocent yesterday, innocent today, and innocent tomorrow” as my grandfather used to say – but even that seems to be changing as we in the South are charged with thought crimes, deemed guilty and sentenced to have all our historical monuments and symbols summarily destroyed, thereby erasing the identity of generations.
When legal decisions are made in accordance with logic and reason, they tend to be predictable. This leads to a stable environment where risk can be mitigated in even long-term commitments. The same goes for legislation; consistent creation, interpretation and application of laws and regulations are the very characteristics basic to economic and social stability.
In Federalist #62, James Madison wrote:
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”
Madison recognized the necessity of simplicity, clarity, and consistency in legislation AND in application of that legislation. He believed great pains should be taken to enshrine clarity, eliminating the nefarious nature of men who place themselves above other men. Madison memorialized this reasoning in Federalist #51:
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”
Yet here we are, finally brought to the harsh realization by the Colorado Supreme Court proving the impulse of the left is always totalitarian, that totalitarianism and authoritarianism are not symptoms of the politics of the left, they are essential components of their anti-individual, anti-constitutional, and anti-liberty agenda.
I don’t think this “decision” will survive US Supreme Court review, but the mere fact it exists in all its stupid glory is evidence America is headed for trouble.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
If playing this game, I wish Texas would make the same move against Biden for Aiding and Abetting an invasion.
Like you, I'm thinking the latter...
Forget the laughter, buy the ammunition