Occam's Banana

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"'Our democracy' is always code for 'our hegemony'." -- Michael Malice

With the Colorado supreme court's (self-stayed) decision to exclude Donald Trump from the state's Republican primary ballot, the war for "muh democracy" has begun in earnest. There were hints and intimations of what was to come - and now, those rumblings have begun to bear fruit. News of the Colorado decision was followed by a cascade of other similar decisions, announcements, etc. from around the country - and more is to be expected as the fruit ripens (and eventually rots).

After the first three threads on the issue were posted, I added cross-links for the other threads to the OP of each thread. But as the number of relevant threads inevitably expands (as it has already begun to do), maintaining a separate index of cross-links in each thread becomes increasingly inconvenient and difficult, to the point of being infeasible. So I decided to create this blog post as a "master index" for all the relevant threads. This way, I will only have to maintain and update a single list of links, and I can just add a single link (for this blog post) to each new relevant thread that is posted.

So without further ado, here are the threads concerning the goings-on in what I will refer to as "Adventures in 'democracy'" (as you peruse these items, please be safe and try not to overdose on popcorn):

How it started:

• Using the 14th Amendment to keep Trump off the ballot

How it's going:

• [CO] Trump Is Disqualified From the 2024 Ballot, Colorado Supreme Court Rules
• So when will "Red" states start removing Biden from the ballot?
• Faux News poll - 54 percent favor CO ruling against Trump
• [CO] Rogue State! Colorado Supremes Knee-Cap Donald Trump [Ron Paul Liberty Report]
• [MI] Michigan Supreme Court rules Trump will stay on ballot.
• [ME] Maine's Secretary of State removes Trump from primary ballot
• [CA] California will keep Trump on state election ballots
• Why Section 3 Disqualification Doesn't Require a Prior Criminal Conviction
• Ballot cleansing: Democrats are moving to bar Republicans from ballots nationwide
• [HI] Hawaii senate bill introduced to exclude Trump from ballot
• [CO] Will The Supremes Ban Trump? [Ron Paul Liberty Report]
• [CO] Supreme Court Hears Trump v. Anderson: What To Expect
• [IL] Trump is disqualified from Illinois ballot, judge rules

How it went:

• ***Official*** SCOTUS count down thread on Trump's ballot ruling, due 1000 Mon 4 Mar
  
  Originally Posted by Anti Federalist

  SCOTUS Unanimously Rules States Cannot Disqualify Trump from 2024 Ballot
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...m-2024-ballot/
  BRADLEY JAYE 4 Mar 2024
  
  WASHINGTON, DC – Colorado cannot disqualify former President Donald Trump from appearing on the 2024 ballot, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday.
  
  In a historic ruling, the Supreme Court said only Congress can disqualify a candidate from the ballot using the Fourteenth Amendment’s “Insurrection Clause”, overturning a 4-3 opinion in December from the Colorado Supreme Court that the provision prohibits former President Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot for the presidency in 2024.
  
  That ruling partially reversed a prior ruling in November that Trump is not an officer of the United States as defined by the Fourteenth Amendment and that the Amendment therefore cannot be used to disqualify him from appearing on the Colorado primary ballot.
  
  This is the first time the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

How it keeps going:

• Using the 14th Amendment to throw Trump out of office

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