The SCOTUS is about to hear the case from Colorado which says Trump is ineligible to run for President because he is an “insurrectionist” (I’ve been saying that’s a “no brainer” since January 6th, 2021) and whether the words of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution really “count.” I’ve also been saying it’s obvious to me the Court will find a way to contradict their own claims to be “originalists” and “textualists” because Section 3 leaves no doubt ANYONE who participated in the planning for and the instigation of the assault on our nation’s Capitol SHOULD be ineligible to hold office in this nation ever again.

Here’s the reality, which SHOULD be obvious to the court. The INSURRECTION is continuing as Trump threatens to discard our constitution should he manage to CHEAT his way back into the Oval Office. Thankfully, he was recently shot down in his claim of “absolute immunity” for the president by the D.C. Appeals Court. However, there’s a growing amount of noise from the MAGA cult that Trump and his sycophants should just ignore the Courts. When we get to that point, well, our democratic republic will be in the ashes. Will “we the people” vote Trump into the History books right next to Benedict Arnold which is where he belongs? In my view, the SCOTUS SHOULD make that a “moot” point by upholding the ruling of the Supreme Court of Colorado.

Of course, that’s a “pipe dream” because the Court has evolved into an arm of the republican party. They gave us GW Bush back in 2000 and they are certainly not going to knock Trump out of the race in 2024. Clarence Thomas, who by all rights SHOULD recuse from the case will be right in the middle of it. For heaven’s sake, his wife was involved in the INSURRECTION and to suggest he was unaware of what she was doing is a bit – check that, way more than a “bit” – on the naive side. After all he’s her “best friend” and that’s who she said she communicates with.

By rights if Jack Smith had thrown a RICO “web” over all of the participants in the INSURRECTION of January 6th, 2021 Ginni Thomas very well could be one of the defendents. Clearly, Mr. Smith limited the indictment to Trump in order to speed up the process of getting to a trial – before the 2024 election so voters know if they’re voting for a FELON or not. (The time issue is the result of Merrick Garland’s failure to start an investigation of Trump almost immediately after taking office. It shouldn’t have taken the J6 Committee to get the “ball rolling.”) Should Trump be aquitted in the trial I’m guessing his chances of winning the election would go up significantly. As many have said, from the progressive side of this country it’s “all hands on deck” up until the November election.

Additionally, knowing that progressives tend to sit back and simply go about their lives preferring to put politics aside, the reality is the MAGA cult will not go away in just one election. If Trump is defeated in 2024 they’ll take a hard look at why they LOST and the answer will be Trump is a deplorable person and a terrible candidate. Of course, voting to put democrats back in control of the House and hopefully increasing the majority of democrats in the Senate – which, at this point appears to be a very long shot – will be requirements of stopping this assault on our country’s foundation.

I’ve reported here about a person I used to meet every week or two for breakfast who is a life long republican and got sucked into Trump’s cult – to the point where he doesn’t even answer my periodic emails because he seems to ACTUALLY believe the “election was stolen.” He was certain Trump would win a second term (had that happened I would have owed him two steak dinners) and that “liberals” would violently react in the streets. I told him I believed the opposite would happen (not knowing at the time the plans for January 6th) and, sure enough, I was correct and we have now lost contact with each other. Republicans seem to be poor LOSERS. (I’m sure he’s fired up for Trump’s “return” after the next election)

I bring this up because one thing which sat in my mind after losing contact with him was some of the stuff he said which, at the time, I just took for nonsense. The first thing he said was he didn’t believe in “democracy” or words to that effect. I didn’t think twice about it at the time, but I have no doubt he’s in the number of (white) Americans who support Trump’s plan to evicerate the Constitution. This guy raised three African American children (I believe he adopted them) yet, when I was talking to him he said some stuff which could only be considered racist – about his own adopted daughter.

He also made the claim there was going to be another “civil war” which led me to believe he was hanging around in the darkest places on the internet. Some of the things he said mirrored things I read when I was doing a bit of research on the “Boogaloo boys” who I suspected as being some of the ringleaders in the violence which occurred during the protests over Police killing Black men after the murder of George Floyd.

I tried to get him to read the Mueller Report – offering to give him my copy – and, of course, he declined. That made it almost impossible to have a rational dialogue on what Trump was ACTUALLY doing because his information was coming from, it seemed to me at the time, Fox “news” or worse. I remember bringing up information from the Southern Poverty Law Center about extremist groups in America and he immediately attacked the character of the founder Morris Dees. I always found that hypocritical of someone supporting Trump. Of course, people like Dees are virtually hated by the MAGA faithful – a movement based on white supremacy – which never sat well with me when I looked back on our relationship.

The reason I point all this out is because it’s people like this who make up the MAGA faithful. And, there are a lot of them and they get their info from the right wing “blogosphere” which starts with Fox “news” and gets more EXTREME as you move to the right in the republican movement. I read the book “Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist” by Eli Saslow which is the story of how Derek Black pulled himself out of the “bowels” of White Supremacy as the son of Don Black, a former “Grand Wizard” of the Klan and Godson of David Duke also a former “Grand Wizard” of the Klan.

After reading that book, which was during the time of Trump’s reign on our nation, maybe in 2018, and Derek’s father was devoted to Fox “news” and Tucker Carlson – for anyone who questions why Carlson is kissing up to Vladimir Putin this should give you a major clue – and in one interview I read about Mr. Black and Mr. Duke sharing their belief that Trump was their “vehicle” into the “mainstream” of American politics. In fact Duke was one of the “Very Fine People” in Charlottesville carrying a Tike Torch and chanting (with all the others) “Jews will not replace us.” And, believe me, this group of Americans will do whatever it takes to put us “liberals” in our “place.” I don’t even like to think where that might be.

My main point is the INSURRECTION has been ongoing since BEFORE January 6th, 2021 and, if (and I’m sure they’re not) the Justices on the SCOTUS have been paying attention they should know their place as the arbiters of America’s 250 year old “experiment” is in jeopary from Trump. They have the opportunity to do what the Senate failed to do after IMPEACHMENT #2 by convicting Trump and upholding Colorado’s Supreme Court, therefore, making Trump ineligible to hold any office in America ever again.

The republicans in Congress continue to show a level of COWARDICE towards Trump which is shameful and disgusting. I don’t know what it will take to motivate democrats, disaffected republicans, and independents to put a stop to all this – but if they are not united in the effort America’s place as “leader of the free world” will have been toppled from within. I believe it was Robert F. Kennedy who warned about the “enemy within” back in the early 1960’s (and, sadly, in my view his son has joined that group) and Trump is the offshoot of that era of American History. Joseph McCarthy, J Edgar Hoover, the John Birch Society, etc. – remember Trump’s “Roy Cohn” which he is always lamenting about was the lawyer for the mafia in New York back when Trump was in his “slumlord” days. (Fined for discriminating against African Americans)

I fully expect the Court to find the most graceful way they can to overturn the Colorado ruling while “tiptoeing” around their commitment to being both “originalists” and “textualists.” Honestly, nothing this Court does surprises me – but, I can virtually guarantee you they’re not going to surprise me on the side of the Colorado Supreme Court. I’m guessing the “conservatives” on the court are also afraid of Trump – most likely it’s Trump’s followers they fear. You’d have to have your head in the sand to not be aware of the death threats, ect. “thrown” at anyone who “crosses” our TWICE IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSING four times indicted (91 FELONY charges) ex president. I’m sure they don’t want the “swatting,” the people in front of their houses yelling threats, etc. The easy way out is to do what Trump wants and the Constitution clearly prohibits – Trump holding office once again.

Final Thought: Well, as usual, I’ve let this rant sit and now that we’ve heard the arguments before the court it’s clear the decision will likely be 9-0 against Colorado. Even the so-called “liberals” on the court seemed to be looking for reasons to rule against the 14th amendment. And, I have to add I was no fan of the guy arguing for the State of Colorado. For example: When the issue of “insurrection” arose and whether Trump actually participated in the INSURRECTION in a way that was playing semantics with the meaning of INSURRECTION he failed to point out section 3 also says “giving aid or comfort to the enemies thereof” is also disqualifying.

He COULD have added that Trump actually admitted he participated in an attempt to overthrow a free and fair election (that would be an INSURRECTION) when he responded to Congress amending the law which says the Vice President’s role is simply ceremonial by saying “That proves Mike Pense could have overturned the election.” There was LOTS of “stuff” this lawyer could have used to prove Trump participated in an INSURRECTION the topic which SHOULD have been at the center of the argument, but was almost an afterthought.

It seemed like ALL the judges were focused on “why should Colorado” determine the outcome of the election by taking Trump off the ballot. That said to me the Judges were saying they don’t want to be responsible for doing that – which, in reality, is their purvue. It was as if the hearing wasn’t actually focused on Section 3 of the 14th amendment. This is the Supreme Court shying from public scrutiny (yep, after the Dobbs decision overturning Roe – apparently that was different!) Yikes!!

Also: Naturally, we’re in this spot as I’ve said so many times because Merrick Garland seemed so timid about starting the investigation into the people at the top of the INSURRECTION – apparently wanting to work “from the bottom up” so now Trump is hell bent on getting re-elected so he can dispense with his MANY indictments. (Of course, we’ll find out soon whether or not the court is going to slow walk Trump’s appeal of his [ridiculous] claim of absolute immunity) But, now, Garland’s obsession with appearing to be “fair” has spawned another issue which will also be “stuck” to his legacy.

The Special Counsel (Robert Hur) appointed to investigate President Biden’s possession of classified documents came out with his report stating that Biden should not and will not be prosecuted for having these documents because his lawyers discovered them and they were immediately returned to the National Archives. Naturally, Mr. Hur didn’t leave it there. He included a bunch of HIS opinions on Bident’s age and “decline” which had NO place in his report. One former justice Department Official called it “James Comey 2.0.

Mr. Hur even suggested President Biden couldn’t remember when his son, Beau, passed away. That caused the President to show as much anger in public as I’ve ever seen. He said when that question was asked he though “It’s none of your damned business.” Really, have you ever heard about Trump giving an interview to Justice Department investigators? Of course not. His lawyers would NEVER allow it – he’s a pathological LIAR. lying in an official interview is, well, a NO NO! So, President Biden sat down for interviews – on the two days following the savage attack on Israel of October 7th – and the Special Counsel is asking questions like that?

And, then Garland allows that absolutey unacceptable personal (political) garbage to be made public. I’m beginning to think Mr. Garland was a good and respected judge, but he’s using up a lot of his positive “capital” in dealing with these republicans. Mostly Trump, but this special counsel, it appears, crossed the line of Justice Department protocol and Mr. Garland let Hur’s political viewpoint into the public sphere in a Justice Department official document. Stay tuned…….