Republican Elected Officials Look To Attack States That Abuse the 14th Amendment
Jose Nino
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Republican elected officials have recently been putting forward measures to counter Democrats’s efforts to take former President Donald Trump off the ballot in the 2024 presidential election.
Several of these proposals consist of not counting or accepting votes from states that have kicked Trump off the ballot, or cutting federal funding from them.
These moves came as a response to Colorado’s Supreme Court ruling to remove Trump off the ballot for allegedly taking part in an “insurrection” during the January 6, 2021 storming of the United States Capitol. The Court argued that Trump’s actions violated the 14th Amendment, which was designed to prevent former Confederates from serving public office at the federal level.
These countermeasures by Republican elected officials have dialed up after Maine’s Secretary of State decided to kick Trump off the ballot.
Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins recently put forward a bill that turns to the 1887 Electoral Count Act, which stipulates that the votes of Electoral College electors from states that did not feature a leading political party’s presidential nominee on the ballot will not be counted.
“New law… If any state in our Union blocks the official nominee of a major political party from the Presidential ballot, their electoral slate will not be counted by Congress on the following January 6th,” Higgins posted on X. “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
With respect to this issue, Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie posted on X, “Maine, Colorado, and other states that might try to bureaucratically deny ballot access to any Republican nominee should remember the U.S. House of Representatives is the ultimate arbiter of whether to certify electors from those states.”
North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis announced after the Maine decision that he would put forward his Constitutional Election Integrity Act, which would establish the US Supreme Court as the only jurisdiction with the power to decide on claims using the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment. Any state that weaponizes the 14th Amendment for “political purposes” would be stripped of federal funding for elections.
“Regardless of whether you support or oppose former President Donald Trump, it is outrageous to see left-wing activists make a mockery of our political system by scheming with partisan state officials and pressuring judges to remove him from the ballot,” Tillis declared in a statement.
“American voters, not partisan activists, should decide who we elect as our President. The Constitutional Election Integrity Act would put any constitutional challenges in the sole place they belong: the U.S. Supreme Court.”
Republicans are right here. They must respond to this clear Banana Republic-style disenfranchisement measure by punishing states who attack Trump.
The time for debate is over. We’re dealing with feral leftists who no longer want to peacefully debate. Ultimately, political force is the only language these cretins understand and we must be ready to apply at all costs.
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