Election 2024

Shiftless2 said:

"Ballot Chaos: Trump eligibility court cases begin!" S2 #77​

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I can understand how a population of millions of laymen (aka "voters") might hold a spectrum of views between "yea" and "nay" on Trump eligibility.
But this flip-flop from a pro has caught me by surprise.

The New York Times

An About-Face on Whether the 14th Amendment Bars Trump From Office​

Adam Liptak - Mon, September 18, 2023

WASHINGTON — A little more than a month ago, a law professor who helped found the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, enthusiastically endorsed a new law review article arguing that Donald Trump was ineligible to be president. ...

Last week, in an extraordinary about-face, the professor changed his mind.

In a letter to The Wall Street Journal, he said he had been persuaded by an opinion article in that newspaper that the provision — Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — did not apply to Trump.

In that article, Michael B. Mukasey, who served as attorney general under President George W. Bush, focused on a part of the provision that limits its scope to people who had taken an oath to support the Constitution “as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state.”

The only category that even arguably applies to Trump is “an officer of the United States,” Mukasey wrote. But that phrase, he asserted, “refers only to appointed officials, not to elected ones.” ...

“I carefully reread the materials on whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment applies to Trump,” he said, “and concluded that it most likely does not.”

He added that politics had not figured in his thinking. “I will support,” he said, “any Republican or Joe Biden over Trump in the 2024 election.”

news.yahoo.com

An About-Face on Whether the 14th Amendment Bars Trump From Office

WASHINGTON — A little more than a month ago, a law professor who helped found the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, enthusiastically endorsed a new law review article arguing that Donald Trump was ineligible to be president. The article was “a tour de force,” the professor...
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“I carefully reread the materials on whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment applies to Trump,” he said, “and concluded that it most likely does not.” Mukasey
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The 14th makes no distinction between "appointed" and "elected", and therefore applies to both. This nitwit Mukasey is arguing the president of the United States is not an officer of the United States. Fact is, POTUS is the CEO of the USA. CEO = chief executive OFFICER

Mukasey! You're a ding-dong! Go find a bucket your head doesn't fit into, and cram it in there anyway.
 
CBS News Videos

CBS News poll has Trump with a 1-point edge over Biden in potential rematch​

Sun, September 17, 2023 at 12:12 PM EDT
With over a year to go before the 2024 election, CBS News elections and surveys director Anthony Salvanto says a new CBS News poll shows President Biden is in a "precarious" position in a hypothetical matchup with former President Donald Trump.

news.yahoo.com

CBS News poll has Trump with a 1-point edge over Biden in potential rematch

With over a year to go before the 2024 election, CBS News elections and surveys director Anthony Salvanto says a new CBS News poll shows President Biden is in a "precarious" position in a hypothetical matchup with former President Donald Trump.
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#83 Trump & Biden

There are two conflicting views of the charter of democratic government.
- The Democrat view: government should protect citizens from force or fraud, but otherwise leave citizens free to exercise their own Liberty responsibly.
- The Republican view: government should impose / inflict the Republican party's own radical socio-political agenda.

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits." Thomas Jefferson

note:
For about half a century women's right of choice was recognized by the 7:2 Roe decision as a Constitutional right.
Now Republican appointed activist judges have usurped this important Constitutional right, simultaneously reducing citizen's healthcare options, and expanding authoritarian government.
 
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"Merciful Heavens !" gramma

PS
Dumping Biden (admittedly rare for a party with an incumbent) may seem appealing in the abstract.
Any nominations for who should replace Biden? Kam Harris?
 
She's got three strikes against her (at least in the minds of many conservative types) - she's a woman - she's black - and she's associated with Biden.
 

You Can't Get a Security Clearance When You Have Money Problems. We Will Be Paying For This Long After He is Dead.​


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Found this on another blog - is the heading correct?
 
Shiftless2 said:
"She's got three strikes against her (at least in the minds of many conservative types) - she's a woman - she's black - and she's associated with Biden." S2 #86
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There's no glaring disqualification I can cite for my reservation about VP Harris.
She's just never impressed me as ingratiating herself to the exec.

I'm stupefied on this one.
Lookit all the Republicans in a clamor to out-do Trump, and one another, for the Republican presidential candidate nomination.
And on the Dem's side,

nada.
For Biden [D] / Harris [D] the primary obstacle (pun?) is themselves, age, or whatever.

S2 #88 - if interested:
www.state.gov

Security Clearances - United States Department of State

backtotop The Background Investigation Process National Security Adjudicative Guidelines Interim Determination Reinvestigation Continuous Evaluation Program FAQs Contact Us The Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) conducts personnel security background investigations for the Department of State and...
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As Hannah Arendt wrote in “The Origins of Totalitarianism”: “Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. The totalitarian movements, each in its own way, have done their utmost to get rid of the party programs which specified concrete content and which they inherited from earlier, non‑totalitarian stages of development.”
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/sto...-republican-party-autocratic-movement-dissent
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As is usually the case Republican presidential candidates are competing against one another, therefore are trying to differentiate themselves, to politically break out from the pack. Thus many differentiated policy positions among the candidates, but few policy standards among congressional Republicans.

For all his faults Trump has unified the Republican party. Federal prison and the white house are both "government housing", relevant because of so many likely felony convictions facing Trump.
 
t #93

That's an attention-getting insight t #93.
Now that you've pointed this out, I recall Trump's 2016 campaign was populated with outrageous promises rather than policy positions / platform planks.

Do you think Trump deliberately excluded policy positions for this purpose?
Or do you believe it's simply a result of the style Trump uses?
 
The Telegraph

Trump leads Biden in four of six battleground states​

Tony Diver / Sun, October 15, 2023 at 3:00 AM EDT
Donald Trump leads in four of six key swing states ahead of next year’s US presidential election, new polling for The Sunday Telegraph shows.
In the latest suggestion Mr Trump’s early campaign has resonated in battleground states, the research finds he leads in a head-to-head battle in Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, and is tied with Mr Biden in Michigan.

Mr Trump, who is the runaway favourite for the Republican nomination, is also considered to be the strongest leader of the two men and to best understand the problems facing America in all six states, including Pennsylvania, where Mr Biden has an overall lead.

Despite national polling that suggests the two men are neck-and-neck across the United States, The Sunday Telegraph’s first poll shows Mr Trump leads in two weathervane states he won in 2016 but lost to Mr Biden in 2020.

In Georgia, where Mr Trump now faces racketeering charges for trying to overturn Mr Biden’s razor-thin victory in 2020, he is now three points ahead, with the support of 43 per cent of voters to Mr Biden’s 40 per cent.

In Arizona, which also voted for Mr Biden by a margin of 0.31 per cent, Mr Trump is now ahead by five points.
The exclusive poll is the first in a series of swing state surveys by Redfield & Wilton Strategies for The Telegraph in the run-up to the next presidential election on November 5, 2024.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-leads-biden-four-six-070000048.html

I wonder why.
 
Former Vice President Mike Pence visited the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office in Concord to file for the state’s primary ballot—but before he could sign the paperwork his visit was interrupted by a heckler claiming to be his lover.

“We’re running because we simply believe with all humility that I’m the most qualified, most experienced, the most tested conservative seeking the Republican nomination,” Pence said.

https://news.yahoo.com/mounting-debt-threatens-mike-pence-035453742.html
 
GC / Trump #97

Gandhi said we should no more hate a man without good manners (a rude man) than we would a man without an arm.
Leverage that to address the alarm reaction to this Trump vid. BUT !!

- He's leading in the polls !

That might spare Trump from alarm or scorn. It does not excuse the nation, the human population, the millions, the tens of millions that support him.

It summons to mind the zombie apocalypse except, did any zombie ever control the nuclear launch codes?
 

Lawsuit to block Trump from Colorado 2024 ballot survives more legal challenges​

By Marshall Cohen, CNN

A judge has rejected three more attempts by former President Donald Trump and the Colorado GOP to shut down a lawsuit seeking to block him from the 2024 presidential ballot in the state based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.”

The flurry of rulings late Friday from Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace are a blow to Trump, who faces candidacy challenges in multiple states stemming from his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection. He still has a pending motion to throw out the Colorado lawsuit, but the case now appears on track for an unprecedented trial this month.

A post-Civil War provision of the 14th Amendment says US officials who take an oath to uphold the Constitution are disqualified from future office if they “engaged in insurrection” or have “given aid or comfort” to insurrectionists. But the Constitution does not spell out how to enforce the ban, and it has been applied only twice since the 1800s.

A liberal watchdog group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed the Colorado case on behalf of ....

 
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