“What it does today, the Court should have left undone.” – SOTOMAYOR, KAGAN, JACKSON, JJ., concurring in the judgment

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[March 4, 2024]
The breaking news out of SCOTUS is a huge victory for democracy! The court has unanimously decided that Trump cannot be taken off the ballot in states like Colorado, Maine, and Illinois.
The future of our nation will be grateful for the precedent set today.

Not so fast there.

Today [pdf], at the U.S. Supreme Court:

[….]
Section 3 serves an important, though rarely needed, role in our democracy. The American people have the power to vote for and elect candidates for national office, and that is a great and glorious thing. The men who drafted and ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, however, had witnessed an “insurrection [and] rebellion” to defend slavery. §3. They wanted to ensure that those who had participated in that insurrection, and in possible future insurrections, could not return to prominent roles. Today, the majority goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming President. Although we agree that Colorado cannot enforce Section 3, we protest the majority’s effort to use this case to define the limits of federal enforcement of that provision. Because we would decide only the issue before us, we concur
only in the judgment.

Some of the responses to Mark Alford (r):

Not what the court said.
The court said congress needs to act to take the traitor off the primary ballot but that a state cannot bar a candidate under that provision of the Constitution. Only congress can do that.
Still lots of court cases and issues of ethics and morality ( fucking a porn star while wife number 3 just got home with a new born) that should be reasons for voters nor to support him. But then there seem to be lots of people thumping bibles while ignoring the lessons in them.

yet he DID give aid and comfort to those who actively participated in the acts of insurrection, also a disqualification from office.

Welcome to beginning of the end of Democracy.
If you have 41 senators on your side, you’re invincible. You can’t be removed via impeachment, you can’t be barred, you have essentially no paths to accountability.
We will now have a Putin-esque President for the rest of history.

Yeah convicted rapist and fraudster ruling can appear on the Colorado ballot. A win for Christians and rapists every where.

Why do you play Mr. Christian on Facebook and then let your true colors shine on X? If they don’t bow to Alford, they are feckless. You also have this mistaken impression that people fear trump. They don’t fear him. They are disgusted by him. There are many that are also disgusted in you.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check. Arraignment. Check.