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Liberals MELT DOWN After Supreme Court Rules Unanimously With Trump: ‘Betrayed Democracy!’
A unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court ensuring former President Donald Trump’s right to appear on the 2024 ballot is leaving liberals scrambling for explanations as to how all of their efforts to keep him off 35 states could be invalidated so decisively.
Jena Griswold, Colorado’s Democratic Secretary of State, kicked off the meltdown on X, stating she is “disappointed in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision stripping states of the authority to enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for federal candidates.”
“Colorado should be able to bar oath-breaking insurrections from our ballot,” she wrote.
I am disappointed in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision stripping states of the authority to enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for federal candidates. Colorado should be able to bar oath-breaking insurrections from our ballot.
— Jena Griswold (@JenaGriswold) March 4, 2024
The post was quickly ratioed by critics.
9-0 you commie fascist …😂😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Ri06fwVEqL
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) March 4, 2024
Your coup attempt just lost, 9-0.
You are the real threat to democracy.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 4, 2024
Even the Democrats on the Supreme Court threw out your communist garbage of a case. Embarrassing!
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) March 4, 2024
On MSNBC, contributor Lisa Rubin tried to spin the decision as leaving room for other avenues to keep Trump from the ballot, including the possibility that he is found guilty of criminal behavior in one of his ongoing cases.
“You have four justices concurring in the judgment… that they feel they don’t need to decide that Congress is the exclusive enforcement mechanism,” she said, adding both conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett and liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson saying “they don’t need to decide anything more than this is not a right that belongs to the states.”
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Self-appointed legal scholar and failed MSNBC contributor Keith Olbermann personified the outrage, writing on X, “The Supreme Court has betrayed democracy. Its members including Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor have proved themselves inept at reading comprehension. And collectively the “court” has shown itself to be corrupt and illegitimate.”
The Supreme Court has betrayed democracy. Its members including Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor have proved themselves inept at reading comprehension. And collectively the "court" has shown itself to be corrupt and illegitimate.
It must be dissolved.
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 4, 2024
He was quickly piled on by some of the same accounts trolling Colorado’s secretary of state.
Have you tried crying more?
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 4, 2024
You are going to spend the rest of your life in prison. Heil Trump. pic.twitter.com/KClBmdDWii
— Comrade Stump (@GranTorinoDSA) March 4, 2024
Look out BELOW! pic.twitter.com/YPBOmlK873
— Paul Emerson (@notanokguy) March 4, 2024
This Orwellian copelord is literally going full "kick candidates I don't like off the ballot to 'save democracy!'" pic.twitter.com/IGTIok5flk
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) March 4, 2024
The high court based its decision in part on an 1869 ruling which stated that an act of Congress would likely be required to determine whether an “insurrectionist” can be prevented from holding federal office under Section III of the 14th Amendment. The ruling casts away previous and ongoing attempts across 35 states to deny Trump the right to appear on the ballot.
“We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency,” the Court wrote according to Fox News.
In a statement on Truth Social, the 45th president celebrated the decision, writing “Big win for America!” to his 6.6 million followers.
