#FultonCounty defendant David Shafer w/a new witness, CobbCounty co-chief dpy DA Cindi Lee Yeager, whom he says had convos w/ #TerrenceBradley between 8/23-1/24. Says she can corroborate that DA #FaniWillis & #NathanWade were in a relationship earlier than acknowledged.

Judge #McAfee has closed off new #evidence on the DA #disqualification question but Shafer is asking he consider this.

Says Yeager "became concerned" after watching Bradley's testimony in court last week.

#SCOTUS has now put the decision in the hands of people like #JimJordan, #MikeJohnson, #JimComer, #EliseStefanik, #MarjorieTaylorGreen, #MattGaetz, #LaurenBoebert, #AndyBiggs, #PaulGosar, #ScottPerry, #BarryLoudermilk, & others many of whom actively participated in #Trump’s #coup attempt & the #Jan6 #insurrection. Were they to enforce §3 of the #14thAmendment they would be disqualified for office themselves.

In so doing, the Court set up a new rule which extends beyond #Trump: that #Congress, & not the states, is responsible for enforcing
#disqualification against federal officeholders & candidates. To do that, the majority held, Congress MUST act.

Instead, the opinion focuses on a threshold question which all but ensures that the #Disqualification Clause will remain a dead letter, at least as applied to #Trump’s 2020 #coup attempt. The *justices* focused instead on whose job it is to enforce §3 of the #14thAmendment, neatly excluding themselves from the equation. Instead, they kicked the issue of who should bar those who have taken an oath to the #Constitution & then engaged in #insurrection from holding office to #Congress.

The ruling brings one of the most prominent efforts to hold #Trump accountable for his attempt to stay in #power after losing the #2020election to an end. #SCOTUS, in oral arguments & in its Monday opinion, went out of its way to dodge the question of whether that attempt — which culminated in the #Jan6 storming of #Congress — constituted an #insurrection.

#14A #14thAmendment #law #Colorado #ballot #Disqualification
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf

In a relatively brief, 13 pg opinion, accompanied by one concurrence from Justice #AmyConeyBarrett & another from the 3 #liberals on the bench, the court decided that the #Constitution leaves the question of #Trump’s disqualification to #Congress. [bullshit]

“Responsibility for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders & candidates rests w/Congress & not the States,” the Court ruled.

#14A #14thAmendment #law
#SCOTUS #Colorado #ballot #Disqualification

Still on our Powell v. McCormack tangent.

Consider me shocked that there was gambling going on in the casino: Politician misuses funds, news at nine.

Court held that founders did not intend Congress to have authority to exclude based on disqualifications not found *expressly* in the Constitution.

Oh boy, don't you love it when you go to read about one case, and then a few hours later you are knee-deep in case law and can't remember how you got there or what you were trying to do?

Powell v. McCormack is a case analyzing the qualification clauses.

Which looking at the footnote, the Court doesn't decide what "qualification clauses" means because they did not have to.

Supreme Court identifies two issues in the case.

The second one, distinguishing ballot access measures versus disqualification, was an argument of one of the dissents at the Arkansas Supreme Court.

They were just removed from ballots, but could be written-in, so the argument was made it doesn't implicate qualification at all.

Gets to the Arkansas Supreme Court and they go 5-2 that it is unconstitutional.

Uniformity in qualifications good, piecemeal restrictions by state bad.

Slow clap for JUST STATING IT CLEARLY!!

Moving forward, let's add this to our US Constitutional amendments.