Ranting, riffing on 'Legally wrong and untenable': Former AG Barr on Colorado Supreme Court ...

RantWoman is not a lawyer.

So why is RantWoman even wading into the maelstrom of opinions about the decision by the CO Supreme Court that #DonTheCon is ineligible even to be on the ballot? Worse yet, why is RantWoman arguing with the former attorney general of the US?

Because!

MSNBC Judge Luttig: The Supreme court should affirm the CO decision

Judge Luttig can speak for himself; the fact that he and Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe agree is enough for RantWoman.

RantWoman emphatically disagrees with Attorney General Barr about a number of points including letteing people vote and the need for more due process.

First, RantWoman was not charmed by General Barr's spinjob about the Mueller report. Would the mess in Ukraine be any less of a mess if there had been different actions about #DonTheCon trying to extort Ukrainian President Zelensky about money Congress had already appropriated? MAYBE.

As to letting people vote, in fact, voters have already voted, TWICE. Voters CANNOT rely only on the courts and MUST be on our game for 2024. The primaries lie ahead. Polls are not all as unambiguous as some reporting indicates. As a reminder to keep voters motivated.

--#TFG lost the popular vote in 2016 and became President by winning the electoral vote.

--In 2020 #TFG lost both the popular vote and the electoral vote. Rather than accept these losses though, he 

   ---got multiple people in multiple states to press local officials to reject the results of the election.

    --organized a violent mob, dispatched the mob to the Capitol, delayed any appropriate response, and at times egged the mob on, threatened his Vice President, the presiding officer at the Congressional vote count, and has continued his deluge of lies in spite of criminal bond conditions that SHOULD be addressing ongoing criminal behavior.

As to the current case, RantWoman emphatically disagrees that there has been no "due process" in the CO case. ON the contrary #DonTheCon is swimming in so much due process that RantWoman wonders both how he has time to campaign and whether he would actually be available to assume office, particularly since he keeps promising to violate his oath of office starting on Day 1. 

The MOST important Due Process issues for #DonTheCon now are all of his legal entanglments: 4 indictments, 91 felony charges, not counting multiple civil trials. RantWoman feels no need to comment further in this post.

RantWoman finds herself wondering whether there is something somewhere in either criminal or first amendment law that can contain the level of incitement about unconstitutional behavior that Trump and his crowds are soaked in. In any case, all the rhetoric is CLEAR indication to RantWoman that voters and the #GOP should NEVER allow him to get to the top of the ticket in the first place. So onward with the primaries. Let us contemplate the logistics of campaigning if the aspiring officeholder were for instance, besides being ruled ineligible to be on the ballot also being detained for multiple repeated violations, some very dangerous, of his bond agreements.

--RantWoman's understanding of the CO civil case is that the Trump team had the opportunity to participate and opted not to. 

--#DonTheCon and his team flat out ignored both legal advice from his own lawyers and the 60+ courts, including many judges he himself appointed in the time between the election of 2020 and #J6. All of that is part of the yellow brick road to all the pending criminal charges.

--The last piece of Due process to mention is the second impeachment trial: although the vote count to convict fell short of the 2/3 required to expel #TFG from office a few weeks early, the count was well over 50% of the Senate. This vote count makes it extremely unlikely, in RantWoman's estimation that there would be 2/3 of the members of Congress willing to vote to waive the terms of Article 3 of the 14th amendment. As one commentator says, this is not politics, it's the law. 

Here, though, there IS a place for politics: it would be nice if ALL the aspiring Presidential candidates could speak of working together for a brighter future and cancel a certain crybaby's revenge tour. 

Santa Claus, are you listening?

Wait, Santa Claus, hold on.

If this were Dungeons and Dragons, RantWoman would be looking for Divine Intervention. RantWoman CAN understand Mr. Barr's concern about chaotic process. RantWoman does not entirely agree, BUT for now maybe the most important piece for the Supreme Court to decide is the question of Presidential immunity. So far the question has been decided about civil matters and RantWoman thinks based on that, checking the criminal matters box should not be a big leap.

LOTS of criminal defendants get fired outright or suspended from jobs while criminal matters are being resolved. Under NO circumstances should #DonTheCon be allowed to cite his campaign as a reason to postpone court action. Deal with the criminal matters and THEN if he still wants to be President...