Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said that while he didn’t want to do it, he had to remind people of how “severe” the situation is.
A top Republican official in Missouri is threatening to remove President Joe Biden from appearing on the ballot as retaliation for the determination in two other states that Donald Trump doesn’t qualify because he “engaged in insurrection.”
“What has happened in Colorado & Maine is disgraceful & undermines our republic,” Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft wrote on the social media site X on Friday. “While I expect the Supreme Court to overturn this, if not, Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for @realDonaldTrump applies equally to @JoeBiden!”
Ashcroft’s post came shortly after the Supreme Court agreed to review a decision by Colorado’s high court that found Trump could be barred from the state’s primary ballot because of his actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
So yeah, if Biden commits insurgency, then his should be off the ballot. But last time I checked he hasn’t come anywhere close.
But, Republicans would have you believe “fair is fair.” Trump got impeached, so Biden should get impeached. Trump got kicked off the ballot, so Biden should get kicked off the ballot. This has nothing to do with pesky things like details and rule of law, it’s just about my side vs your side, unless my side is winning, then I’ll take the law into consideration again.
Waaaahhhh my candidate got kicked off so I’m going to retaliate and try to kick the other guy off. Good luck at the Supreme Court.
Yeah so THAT wouldn’t hold up to a SCOTUS hearing. Rather if it does we may as well ignore SCTOUS forevermore.
Why are the comments here acting like the SCOTUS stands for anything but toeing Republican line? The court is more stacked than it has been for decades and these people will gladly sell-out the Constitution to score political power for Republicans.
Pretty sure three of them literally got their positions in return for their work on the Bush v. Gore case in 2000 that led to the first GW Bush Presidency.
John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett all worked for the Bush campaign on that case.
People have been lying to themselves about this one for a long time. Roberts is chief justice, and Bush elevated him there in 2005. It’s just become much more egregious and mask-off since then because they’re pretty damned sure the public can’t actually do anything about it so they’ve stopped giving a shit about pretending.
They didn’t let Trump argue his election lies. Sometimes they can surprise you.
My impression is they still know they must feign being apolitical and letting Trump argue election lies would be so far removed from reality that they know everything would change after that.
Whereas this case means all they need to say is, “let the voters decide” and the enlightened centrists, even some of the left, will nod their heads in agreement or just quietly bicker.
Good thing Missouri secretary of state isn’t in any way shape or form a real job. Or him wasting taxpayers dollars with this political stunt would really piss off the overweight illiterate trailer park inhabitants of the state.
It’s honestly better for them as it gives this writhing mass of cancerous maggots parading as a human and it’s staff less time to research and decline to participate in federal aid programs that don’t specifically give the money to corporations and police.
