Former GOP Congressman Justin Amash is not any fan of Donald Trump. He voted to question the previous president, and left the Republican Social gathering to affix the Libertarian Social gathering over his disagreements about what Trump was doing to the GOP. He finally selected to not run for his seat once more in 2020.
However when Colorado’s Supreme Court docket introduced on Tuesday that the state would ban Trump from their 2024 presidential poll due their judgment that he violated the 14th modification, Amash was fast to elucidate why Colorado is lifeless flawed on this subject.
Constitutionally.
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Amash, identified for explaining each single vote he ever took on his social media accounts, gave Democrats a little bit lesson on the Structure.
“The opinion of the Colorado Supreme Court docket is shameful and runs utterly counter to our constitutional system,” he started.
Amash demonstrated how Colorado is stepping exterior the rule of regulation in barring Trump from the election for allegedly inflicting an “revolt” on January 6, 2012 on Capitol Hill.
Amash wrote:
Donald Trump was not faraway from workplace by Congress for partaking in revolt.
Donald Trump has not been criminally convicted in a court docket of regulation of partaking in revolt.
No matter you imagine about whether or not Donald Trump engaged in revolt has no bearing on whether or not he’s eligible to run for president.
Amash mentioned what the Colorado court docket did was “extraconstitutional.”
“No legislative, government, or judicial physique of a state ought to interact in extraconstitutional decision-making to disqualify a federal candidate from the poll,” he wrote.
The previous congressman considers what Colorado is doing a menace to the rule of regulation, writing, “This isn’t accountability; it’s an assault on due means of regulation. It undermines our electoral system and threatens each federal candidate for workplace.”
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Amash Has Loads of Firm
Others on social media Tuesday night time didn’t suppose the Colorado choice would legally stand.
Republican Senator Mike Lee mentioned forthright, “This lawless, cynical ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court docket won’t stand.”
Sen. Lee even mocked the Colorado court docket.
Knox County, Tennessee Mayor and WWE star “Kane” shared a meme suggesting the choice was the actual menace to democracy.
The examples are infinite however simply know this: Justin Amash – no fan of Donald Trump – has laid out why this choice is illegal, unconstitutional and a menace to the rule of regulation.
And he’s received loads of firm.
