Blue States Rush To Follow Colorado

➡ The West Virginia Republican Party successfully intervened against a plaintiff trying to bar Donald Trump from the primary ballot. Despite some setbacks in Colorado, the Supreme Court of the United States is preparing for review, facing a flurry of similar cases nationwide. However, the decision in West Virginia secures the voters’ right to select their presidential nominee, maintaining the democratic process’s integrity.

Win out of West Virginia, the federal court there in West Virginia, and I’ve got the decision in my hands now. The district court there for the southern District of West Virginia. It was the plaintiff there, of course, this Castro figure has been trying to file lawsuits all across the country to bar Donald Trump from the primary ballot and the defendants. We intervened as the West Virginia Republican Party and officially representing them and their chair.

It’s all going to matter in one court, the Supreme Court of the United States. We have, our teams are working on this literally all night last night, and they will be through the weekend as we get ready for this, folks, this is going to the Supreme Court. That is the next stop. It’s a case out of Colorado where the court ruled against us. Trump was, in their view, could be taken off the ballot.

We’re challenging that at the Supreme Court of the United States. I feel pretty confident they’re going to grant review, but we’ve got a lot of work we’re doing on that right now. We’re also, too, seeing this barrage of other states trying to make moves, blue states trying to make moves, even hopefully before the Supreme Court considers this case. So in Michigan, where we won at the lower court, at the ACLJ, won at the lower court, we’ve been waiting for the Supreme Court.

Now, people, there’s all eyes there to see if they will follow suit. They didn’t want to be necessarily the first state like Colorado, but now that Colorado’s done it, will the Michigan Supreme Court follow suit and do the same thing? That’s why I said, folks, we’re getting the wins like in West Virginia, but we’re also seeing, because of that Colorado loss, which we expected, and ultimately this being decided by the Supreme Court, that is all across the country.

But the end game here is the Supreme Court will decide this once and for. We have the biggest election case in us history right now at the Supreme Court. This is not an exaggeration. This is an historic attack on our democracy. The Colorado Supreme Court abused the 14th amendment and banned the former president from the ballot. Now other states are piling on. We are seeing an avalanche of cases.

We’re calling this a judicial emergency in West Virginia. The state code actually requires that the electorate put up its nominee and we select the delegates, and the delegates go to the RNC convention and we put up the primary or the individual who wins the election. So it’s all up to the state party and nothing of the state, secretary of state has to do with it. So what this Castro was trying to do was interfere with the ability of the West Virginia electorate to choose their nominee and to vote for their nominee for president.

And that was just absolutely horrendous. And the voters, actually, it was interesting because the voters, after the decision came out, seemed to come out of the woodwork and say, wait a minute, this was actually going on in the state of West Virginia. How can that happen? And we need to fight that. And I said, well, we did fight it and we did win. So we will be able to choose our nominee and we will be able to put up the presumptive nominee at this point, which is Trump, because he has absolutely taken West Virginia by storm in the last two elections.

I say this is the most fundamental attack on our right to vote. I have not seen this. I practiced law for a bit. I’ve followed our political process. I’ve read the history. I’m not sure I’ve seen anything where a group of unelected officials decided they were going to set who or couldn’t be on the ballot. There’s zero due process, no recognition of First Amendment and free association freedoms.

Essentially adjudicating a complex issue about who can be on a ballot in a way that is so deeply undemocratic has never been accomplished in America. I’m confident the Supreme Court will get this right. The good work of the ACLJ will increase the likelihood that my hopes are realized. But this is a dangerous time, because this will unleash real dangerous things across America. We will undermine our central institutions, forget who the particular people are.

We will undermine these central institutions in ways that will be incredibly difficult for our republic to get back. And this year, in drive that we’ve been talking about, we have not seen, I think, an election case like this ever before. It’s the biggest in our history, because this is not post election. This is who you get to decide who you can vote for, judges telling you who you can’t vote for.

You can’t even write them in. You write them in, they toss your vote. You don’t get to come back and correct it. No, they toss your vote in the primary. They’re going to do this over and over and over again if we don’t fight this right now. So we are literally protecting your right to vote preemptively so that you can decide who or who not to vote for.

But they judges, and the left, and the right wing cabal, or the right cabal that’s joined the left here, they’re not going to decide for you. We’re not going to let that happen. Now, did we see this coming down the road as something dead? Absolutely not. We didn’t see this case six months from now. But now it’s, because it seems so absurd. But we knew there are a lot of absurd courts out in America.

There are. There are, you see a lot of wild opinions. And we got one out of barely, barely fourth three heading to the US Supreme Court debt. And we have to work not only through the holiday, but we have got to add members to our team, just like we were adding members to our team when this started a couple months ago. And just like we were adding members on our team as the war began in Israel.

We are in a judicial emergency. This is not the only case at the supreme Court. You’ve got this case, you’ve got the case on the January 6 protest and the whole issue of what constitutes interference with Congress. And then you have, on top of that, you’ve got an abortion case up there. And then we’ve got all the international legal work we’re working on on the Israel front. So what we’re going to ask you to do right now is support the work of the American center for Law and Justice@aclj.

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