It seems that we might as well get rid of both the word and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. I wasn’t surprised by the fascist-dominated SCOTUS’s decision, but I was definitely frustrated by it being unanimous. As an anti-states’ rights fellow, it hardly makes sense that one state can swing a federal election. I can’t blame the liberal minority’s going along with the fascist majority’s ruling against Colorado too much.
But oh the hypocrisy among those judges in the fascist majority! They took away a right from the states (the right to apply that amendment) and added them in other cases—a woman’s right to choose is now left to the states, for example. No wonder Alabama presumed they could declare an IVF embryo is a human being without considering that other states might (and many couples who want to have children!) might object.
Like “originalism,” this SCOTUS fascist majority chooses federal or states’ rights in any way they consider convenient. Don’t look for consistency or logic among these fascists. Alito and company, supposedly brilliant jurists (I see none of that), are originalists only when it suits them. (Hey, idiots! The Fourteenth Amendment makes a legal statement that should apply to all states, red and blue alike!) And Clarence Thomas? We know that toady, whose thought processes are at the level of pond scum (an insult to the latter?), just joins that fascist parade, all of the fascist judges marching along together as they take the country down the road to autocracy.
The Founding Fathers screwed us royally in only a few but critical ways as they held onto their aristocratic beliefs; but today’s fascists, especially those sitting on SCOTUS’s bench (probably more than one, considering Thomas’s fat butt!) have found self-serving ways to use every one of them. States’ rights was one huge error made by the Founding Fathers. It has damaged America from day one. And, with this court, it’s too late to fix things.
But what about the other part of SCOTUS’s decision? Five of the six fascist judges gave as part of their majority opinion that only the US Congress can tamper with federal election ballots when applying the Fourteenth Amendment. Huh? Congress’s only constituional power against a presidet is the purse (that’s a big one, of course) and impeachment (Il Duce’s two times set a new record). That part of the decision is so flawed that one of the fascist judges, Comey Bryant, expressed her dismay with her brethren’s opinion (with her, it’s better to use religiouos terminology) because they didn’t leave an opening for other ways to punish insurrectionists using the amendment at the federal level. Whether you call it an attempt at insurrection, coup d’etat, or takeover, Narcissus le Grand is guilty of it! Period! He wasn’t impeached for it by Congress, but he should be punished for it by the US legal system. A president or ex-president is neither a king nor God.
And, to be honest, any federal definition of insurrection should also consider that such an action is treason against the United States with a corresponding punishment fitting of a traitor, not just a ban from federal office: Standing up against a wall in front of a firing squad seems a lot more appropriate! After all, if Il Duce claims he can walk down Fifth Avenue, kill someone, and get away with it, a firing squad is the punishment that “f^%$ing moron” deserves!