The American Spectator | USA News and Politics by DAVID CATRON
Despite incessant claims to be âsaving our democracy,â Soros-funded Democrats seek to stifle it.
Early this year, a number of far left activist groups vowed to bring lawsuits against election officials in states that dared to include former President Trump on their 2024 presidential ballots. This threat was, of course, issued pursuant to the fringe claim that he incited an âinsurrectionâ on Jan. 6, 2021 and is therefore barred by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment from holding any public office at the state or federal level. Several states have already been subjected to such lawsuits, most of which were summarily dismissed. Litigation continues, however, in Colorado, Michigan and Minnesota. Moreover, there is a very real possibility that at least one of these lawsuits will succeed.
Anderson v. Griswold, for example, is a Colorado lawsuit argued last week before Denver District Court Judge Sarah Wallace. The litigation was brought on behalf of several never-Trump Republicans by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a legal advocacy group funded in large part by George Soros, according to InfluenceWatch. The consensus among constitutional scholars has long been that Section 3 was meant only to prevent former Confederate officials from holding office after the Civil War. One attempt to deploy it against a Socialist congressional candidate was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1921. This is how CREW justifies this latest attempt to exhume Section 3:
While Section 3 has not been tested often in the last 150 years, due to lack of insurrections, last year CREW represented residents of New Mexico who sued to remove county commissioner Couy Griffin from office, the only successful case to be brought under Section 3 since 1869. The judge in that case determined January 6th was an insurrection under the Constitution and that someone who helped to incite it ⊠had engaged in insurrection and was disqualified from office…
