Capitol Police Officers Weigh In On Trump’s Eligibility To Run For Office Again

Numerous amicus briefs have been submitted within the case of Trump v. Anderson, elevating the query of whether or not former President Donald Trump is certified to hunt the presidency once more below the 14th Amendment’s rebel clause.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr and authorized scholar Seth Barrett Tillman had been amongst these endorsing Trump’s eligibility.

“We appreciate fully that the Members of this Court would prefer not to be thrust into the midst of a presidential election like this. But there is no avoiding it,” the election attorneys wrote. “Any contention that the time and place for determining Section 3’s applicability is on January 6, 2025, after the election is concluded, invites disaster for the Nation.”

Michigan’s Secretary of State and election legislation specialists urged the court docket to make a definitive ruling.

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“As time has passed and new election cycles have begun, some have tried to rewrite the history and significance of the insurrection on January 6,” a short learn. “But any reasonable, good-faith consideration of the events surrounding January 6 necessitates the conclusion that Trump encouraged an armed, violent mob to prevent Congress from taking an essential step in the transition of presidential power.”

On the opposite facet, former Republican officers and federal choose J. Michael Luttig pushed for Trump’s disqualification, with Capitol cops additionally filing a short towards Trump.

“Mr. Trump deliberately tried to break the Constitution—to incite threatened and actual armed force to prevent the peaceful transfer of executive power,” Luttig and the officers wrote. “That constituted engaging in an insurrection against the Constitution.”

Trump responded final week to excellent news from the U.S. Supreme Court.

The nation’s highest court docket heard arguments in a landmark authorized case to determine whether or not Trump might be on the poll in November’s election.

The justices had been skeptical of Colorado’s resolution to disqualify the previous president and requested powerful questions of the lawyer from the state.

Colorado’s high court docket beforehand dominated Trump was not eligible to be on the poll as a result of he supposedly engaged in rebel on the US Capitol. Trump appealed the choice, and the justices on Thursday appeared poised to facet with the forty fifth president.

Speaking to reporters exterior of Mar-a-Lago, Trump simply known as the Supreme Court listening to “a very beautiful process,” including that he hopes democracy will proceed.

“So I just say that in watching the Supreme Court today, I thought it was very — it’s a very beautiful process. I hope that democracy of this country will continue, because right now we have a very, very tough situation with all of the radical left ideas, with the weaponization of politics. They weaponized it like it’s never been weaponized before. It’s totally illegal, but they do it anyway,” Trump mentioned.

“And it has to stop. Every one of the court cases and I’m involved, every single one, civil, whether it’s the attorney generals or the district attorneys. You look at Fani in Georgia. They had many meetings with the White House and with the DoJ. They went there, eight hour meetings. It was all staged. It was a phony hoax. And now you’re looking at it and it is a phony hoax. And hopefully that case will be dismissed in short order. It’s a — it’s a disgrace to this country, But they work together with the Justice Department and the White House and not supposed to do that,” Trump added.

“Every one of these cases you see comes out of the White House, it comes out of Biden, it’s election interference, and it’s really very sad. I thought the presentation today was a very good one. I think it was well received — I hope it was well received. You have millions of people that are out there wanting to vote, and they happen to want to vote for me or the Republican Party, or whatever you want to — however you want to phrase it,” Trump continued.

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Trump went on to name President Joe Biden “the worst president in the history of our country,” including that he “can’t put two sentences together.”