South Carolina Attorney General joins push to keep Trump on ballots – ColaDaily.com
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Updated: January 7, 2024 @ 7:48 am
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Updated: January 7, 2024 @ 7:48 am
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined a 27-state effort fighting against Colorado’s efforts to keep former President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to review the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Trump from that state’s ballot. According to the Colorado ruling, Trump participated in an insurrection on January 6, 2021 and is therefore ineligible to run for federal office under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Wilson disagrees.
“Simply, states do not have the power to keep Trump off the ballot. Period. These efforts are fueled by partisan politics and not the rule of law,” said Wilson. “If you don’t want to vote for Trump, then don’t vote for him. But based on major polls, there are many who do, and they should be able to cast their ballot for him without confusion and manufactured chaos.”
The multistate coalition believes the U.S. Supreme Court should give Congress the power to rule on what constitutes “insurrection.”
The brief argues, “With Colorado declaring former President Trump ineligible, and other courts rejecting similar challenges, conflict and chaos is already setting in. Voters who may wish to cast their ballots for former President Trump cannot know whether he ultimately will be excluded from the ballot in their State or others… So, will voters risk casting their votes for a candidate who might be later disqualified in some or all States? If they do, what becomes of their votes?”
The brief also argues that the Constitution “specifies that a politically accountable body should publicly declare whether an ongoing disturbance of the peace constitutes a war, rebellion, or insurrection precisely because the lines between them are not always clear,” and that Congress has been entrusted with the power to declare war, call to suppress insurrections, and repel invasions with legislation.
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming along with the Arizona Legislature also joined the West Virginia- and Indiana-led brief.
Read the full brief here.
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