Justice Samuel Alito seldom disappoints but what he did to the Colorado lawyer trying to keep President Trump off the ballot was pure genius. Alito suggested that if Trump can be removed from the Colorado ballot, Biden giving billions to Iran that is being used to fund terrorists who have attacked US interests over 160 times in just a couple of months is giving aid and comfort to the enemy and could easily be considered treason and therefore removed from the ballots of the states.
Jason Murray, the lawyer for the six voters seeking to preclude their fellow Americans from voting for Trump in the Centennial State tried to justify removing Trump from the Colorado ballot and it did not go well for him. He was beaten up by several of the justices including liberal Elena Kagan. To say it’s not going well for Murray would be a gross understatement. Based on Murray’s performance both he and Colorado’s Supreme Court are taking a shellacking.
Alito asked:
“Suppose there is a country that proclaims again and again and again that the United States is its biggest enemy. And suppose that the president of the United Sates, for diplomatic reasons, thinks that it is in the best interest of the United States to provide funds or release funds so that they can be used by that country.”
“Could a state determine that that person has given aid and comfort to the enemy and therefore keep that person off of the ballot?”
Murray answered:
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“This court has never interpreted the aid-and-comfort language, which also is present in the Treason Clause. But commentators have suggested — it’s been rarely applied because treason prosecutions are so rare — but commentators have suggested that, first of all, that aid and comfort really only applies in the context of a declared war or at least an adversarial relationship where there is in fact a war.”
Iran routinely threatens the United States.
The regime’s minister of defense said in November that if the U.S. did not implement a ceasefire in Gaza, it would “be hit hard,” reported Reuters.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi vowed in September to take revenge on the Americans who ordered and engaged in the assassination of Iranian terrorist Qassim Suleimani.
Despite such threats, indications that Iran was involved in the Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel, and warnings from Republicans that the Iranian regime could use the money to increase its funding of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthi terrorists, the Biden administration released $6 billion in frozen assets to Iran.
Alito was not the only Supreme Court justice who contemplated the ramifications of Trump’s disqualification and the potential for Section 3 weaponization by partisans.
Roberts suggested that if Colorado’s position is upheld, “surely there will be disqualification proceedings on the other side, and some of those will succeed.”
“Some of them will have different standards of proof. Some of them will have different rules about evidence,” continued Roberts. “In very quick order, I would expect, although my predictions have never been correct, I would expect that a goodly number of states will say whoever the Democratic candidate is, you’re off the ballot, and others for the Republican candidate, you’re off the ballot.”
“It’ll come down to just a handful of states that are going to decide the presidential election,” said Chief Justice John Roberts. “That’s a pretty daunting consequence.”
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