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LYMAN: Trump’s 14th Amendment Win Would Be Huge — But There’s A Catch

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to accept his challenge to the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling that sought to exclude former President Donald Trump from voting, but in what could be a major victory for real democracy. It will be exploited by the left.

CNN's Jake Tapper asked panelists Friday whether the high court could “restore its perception of being politically biased,” pointing to Justice Clarence Thomas' refusal to sit out the case. did.Thomas is faced calls to resign That's after his wife, Ginny, sent a text message to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about alleged fraud in the 2020 election.

But Tapper's questions focus on a deeper issue, and one that the nation has been fighting for the better part of six years: the so-called illegitimate Supreme Court.

The late Chief Justice Robert Jackson once Said: “We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible simply because we are final.”

High court decisions, unless changed by new challenges, can fundamentally change state behavior. Each decision has a nuanced impact on the weight of our constitutional republic. The unanimous judgment is a decisive reaffirmation of the fundamental principles of our nation and our Constitution.

But recent decisions that have split along partisan lines have led some on the left to declare that the high court and some of its judges lack judicial authority. rightfulness.

others have gone this far threaten the court.

“Perhaps the courts can recover on their own before the public calls for “restructuring to reduce political influence,'' especially on the urgent issue of gun control, which the nation desperately needs to recover. We need it,” Democrats wrote in court briefs in 2019 over the Second Amendment lawsuit.

Democratic New York State Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused It is also known as putting the abortion issue directly back in the hands of the people, as several justices said they “destroyed the legitimacy of the court” when they overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the abortion issue back to the states.

But that's why Trump v. Anderson is so important and potentially devastating.

If the Supreme Court did not unanimously rule that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is not self-executing, invalidating the Colorado decision and still ruling in favor of Trump, the left will use the victory to advance its agenda to pack the court.

They are trying to convince young voters, who spend a lot of time watching Biden's surrogates on TikTok, that the Supreme Court's decision is purely politically motivated and an affront to the Constitution. He will try to persuade you. They will strip the court of its once respected status in American society and reduce it to little more than an institution infiltrated by partisan political hacks. They will blame Thomas for not recusing himself, as he has for years.

They will ignore the fact that the Colorado Supreme Court has said that if Trump appeals, it will be placed on the ballot immediately. That's because they, too, probably know that their reasoning is based on faulty assumptions and anticipate challenges, as decisions in other states have shown.

And like clockwork, there will be a call to fill new seats, driven by an appetite that can only be satisfied by success – “success” being the combination of partisan decisions and partisan sympathies to the left. It is the deliberate appointment of judges who demonstrate a pattern.

once alexander hamilton Said Because the judiciary is by design the weakest branch, “the general liberties of the people can never be in jeopardy.”

Hamilton surely never anticipated that the judiciary would become a contentious issue for those seeking to use force to advance political agendas that are often an encroachment on freedom.

So a decision to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court's decision would be a huge victory not only for Mr. Trump and his supporters, but also for the separation of powers, but one that the left will no doubt exploit.

If the Supreme Court rules in Trump's favor, he could lose at the polls. Therefore, the court's decision is not considered to be based on merits, reason, or the Constitution itself (I'm looking at you, Section 5 of the 14th Amendment). Instead, it would be outlawed as a partisan ruling, and therefore a potential Trump victory would be called illegitimate as well.

Then again, they said it was a fraudulent victory in 2016, so well, nothing new.

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