Noah Bookbinder, president of CREW, on CNN
MSNBC's Ali Velshi interviews Harvard Law Professor emeritus Laurence Tribe on September 10, 2023
why the case is destined to end up at the Supreme Court,
and how the self-executing component of the article works.
“This is more controversial because it isn’t as mechanical,” Tribe explains about the lawsuit.
“Clearly we’re going to have to explore in this trial the meaning of insurrection, what it means to be engaged in it…
and I think it’s clear to most people that if Trump doesn’t qualify [for that], nobody would.”
On what's at stake in the 14th Amendment clause, Tribe says, “This was a major protective provision put in there because [the founders] realized that those who take an oath to uphold the constitution and then turncoat against it might not end up being prosecuted for anything,” he explains.
“It’s important for the survival of the republic that someone who has shown him or herself to be an insurrectionist against the Constitution not get another chance to try.”
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold interviewed by Ali Velshi
"Trump is a liar with no respect for the Constitution. To say that a section of the 14th Amendment is election interference in considering how to uphold the Constitution is election interference is UNAMERICAN. -- Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State
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World History already has demonstrated the unique salience and urgency of this current question in the courts of the State of Colorado.
Both of them promised economic prosperity but are remembered by history for death and destruction.
On 31 October 1922, following the March on Rome (28–30 October), Mussolini was appointed prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III, becoming the youngest individual to hold the office up to that time. After removing all political opposition through his secret police and outlawing labour strikes,[10] Mussolini and his followers consolidated power through a series of laws that transformed the nation into a one-party dictatorship. Within five years, Mussolini had established dictatorial authority by both legal and illegal means and aspired to create a totalitarian state.
By November 1932, the Nazi Party held the most seats in the Reichstag but did not have a majority. None of the political parties were able to form a majority coalition in support of a candidate for chancellor. Former chancellor Franz von Papen and other conservative leaders persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as chancellor on 30 January 1933. Shortly after, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933 which began the process of transforming the Weimar Republic into Nazi Germany, a one-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. On 2 August 1934, Hindenburg died and Hitler succeeded him as the head of state and government. Hitler aimed to eliminate Jews from Germany and establish a New Order to counter what he saw as the injustice of the post-World War I international order dominated by Britain and France.
If the United States allows Trump to regain the power of the presidency, there can be no doubt our history will be likewise tainted. He has already articulated his contempt for the US Constitution.
When they tell you who they are, believe them.
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