California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) rejected a plan to dam Trump from the 2024 poll.
“There isn’t a doubt that Donald Trump is a menace to our liberties and even to our democracy. However in California, we defeat candidates on the polls. All the things else is a political distraction,” Newsom stated on Friday.
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NEW: CA governor Gavin Newsom is *defending* Donald Trump after the Colorado Supreme Court docket voted to take away him from their poll.
Discovering Democrats who nonetheless help democracy is uncommon nowadays.
The remark from Newsom got here days after Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis known as on the… pic.twitter.com/JuvlwZIk7f
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 23, 2023
Earlier this week California’s Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis urged the Secretary of State, Dr. Shirley N. Weber, to think about authorized avenues for barring Trump from California’s 2024 presidential main poll.
In a letter addressed to Secretary Weber, Lieutenant Governor Kounalakis referenced the Colorado State Supreme Court docket’s determination to bar Trump from the 2024 poll.
The fool Lt Governor truly stated in her letter that Trump should be at the least 40 years outdated to run for US President.
The Structure clearly states that an individual should be at the least 35 years outdated.
Learn the complete letter:
Primarily based on the Colorado Supreme Court docket’s ruling in Anderson v. Griswold (2023 CO 63), I urge you to discover each authorized choice to take away former President Donald Trump from California’s 2024 presidential main poll.
I’m prompted by the Colorado Supreme Court docket’s current ruling that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to look on the state’s poll as a Presidential Candidate because of his position in inciting an revolt within the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. This determination is about honoring the rule of legislation in our nation and defending the basic pillars of our democracy.
Particularly, the Colorado Supreme Court docket held in Anderson v. Griswold (2023 CO 63) that Trump’s revolt disqualifies him beneath part three of the Fourteenth Modification to face for presidential re-election. As a result of the candidate is ineligible, the court docket dominated, it might be a
“wrongful act” for the Colorado Secretary of State to record him as a candidate on that state’s presidential main poll. Moreover, Colorado’s Supreme Court docket cites conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch to make their case, saying the next, “As then-Decide Gorsuch acknowledged in Hassan, it’s ‘a state’s authentic curiosity in defending the integrity and sensible functioning of the political course of’ that ‘permits it to exclude from the poll candidates who’re constitutionally prohibited from assuming workplace.
California should stand on the appropriate aspect of historical past. California is obligated to find out if Trump is ineligible for the California poll for a similar causes described in Anderson. The Colorado determination might be the idea for the same determination right here in our state. The structure is obvious: you should be 40 years outdated and never be an insurrectionist.
There would be the inevitable political punditry a few determination to take away Trump from the poll. however this isn’t a matter of political gamesmanship. It is a dire matter that places at stake the sanctity of our structure and our democracy.
Time is of the essence as your announcement of the licensed record of candidates for the March 5, 2024, main election is arising subsequent weck, on December 28, 2023.
Thanks for all of your work to make our state’s elections a shining instance throughout the nation and world and in your time and consideration on this pressing matter.