Trump isn’t the only Republican with a 14th Amendment problem
Some time ago, a number of conservative-leaning activists sued to have Donald Trump removed from the ballot in Colorado, a now reliably blue state where Trump never really had much chance of winning whether he appears on the ballot or not. There was – and still is – the very likely possibility that the US Supreme Court will eventually rule in Donald Trump’s favor, with some fairly solid arguments from the Colorado supreme court’s dissenters. For this reason, it was largely a nothingburger, despite the media hyping it up as one of the most contentious legal battles of 2023 – with democracy being in serious jeopardy unless Colorado struck Donald Trump from the ballot. So of course, when the unexpected outcome happened, they argued that *this* was the real attack on democracy – and that Trump needed to be on the ballot for democracy to prevail.
It’s true that this melodrama by itself won’t mean very much in the long run, but something else that Palmer Report told you to watch out for is quietly taking place. These lawsuits have forced Donald Trump’s campaign money as he fights to stay on the ballot in multiple states, and also diverts the media into debating if he actually is guilty of an insurrection, as per the 14th Amendment. It’s now drifting beyond Trump entirely, with news that one of Trump’s staunchest advocates in the Senate, Ron Johnson, was directly involved with the planning of Jan 6. Now, it’s trickled down to Rep. Scott Perry, who was one of the loudest advocates for Donald Trump about the 2020 election being stolen.
Now, Perry, who once sought to get the Trump DOJ to overturn the 2020 election in Trump’s favor, has found himself in a lawsuit of his own, with Harrisburg activists pushing to get Perry removed from the ballot under the same clause. We’ll see how many more House Republicans this happens to, but it’s clear that the events of that day nearly three years ago are not going to die off quietly.
James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making