From Fox9: The Minnesota Secretary of State has fielded nearly 500 calls asking whether former President Donald Trump can appear on a 2024 ballot due to the 14th Amendment.
Star Tribune’s Susan Du reports that a District Court judge has ordered Minneapolis to abandon its 2040 plan and instead revert to the previous 2030 plan. “Plaintiffs have outlined numerous environmental impairments that are likely to result by virtue of the full implementation of the 2040 Plan,” the judge wrote in his decision.
A grassroots campaign to place 29 red bikes around Mankato to promote Farrell’s eXtreme Bodyshaping has backfired. Mankato Free Press reports that the business owner hoped to use the bikes as a conversation starter and encourage people to be active but now the bikes are being removed by local officials.
The Taco John’s that formerly resided in the Minneapolis Skyway allegedly owes $100,000 in unpaid rent, Bring Me the News reports.
The cause of a sewage backup and subsequent cancelling of classes at Armstrong High School in Plymouth appears to be the result of a backup of paper towels, bathroom wipes, and vapes, per WCCO.
Did you hear the tornado sirens sound twice Wednesday afternoon? Bring Me the News reports that Hennepin County Emergency Management is looking into why the alarms sounded multiple times.
Sahan Journal’s Becky Z. Dernbach writes that the first East African magnet school in the nation opened this week in St. Paul.
A lawsuit against a Rochester police officer will be dismissed by the plaintiff. Post Bulletin’s Mark Wasson writes that Todd McIntyre had alleged that officer Craig Sammon attacked him following a disorderly call in 2016.
Willmar Public Schools is the latest district to terminate its contract with local law enforcement in schools, Duluth News Tribune reports.
From Kare11: The Minnesota Department of Health is offering free at-home COVID tests as cases continue to rise across the country.
Drought conditions could lead to another fall with strong colors that will start to change in the next week or two, Axios’ Nick Halter writes.
As much as I would love to see Biden stomp Trump again, he deserves to be 14th’d from eligibility. We could talk all day about how an insurrection is defined, but if what Trump did on January 6th isn’t enough to make him ineligible, then what would be?
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
Funny – I don’t see the word “convicted” anywhere in that text . . . . .
“shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof”
Sure, there’s no word “conviction”. But to get anyone removed for the above offenses will require a court’s decision. Kindof like how we can’t call Trump a rapist or convicted sex offender, but the court did find him liable for sexual assault.
Trying to use the 14th to block Trump would likely add to the tension in the country. The better alternative is to beat him at the ballot box again. Sure, his supporters will claim electoral fraud; but it’s very unlikely he’ll find a new set of co-conspirators to play the big lie again. His Oath Keepers and Proud Boys have already been convicted; next up are his coterie of lawyers (giuliani, powel, eastman, etc). Fox owes hundreds of millions in damages, with more cases pending for them & other conservative outlets. Meanwhile it’s not at all apparent he’s winning over any swing voters. Lastly, his core of old white people are dying off and Gen Z is both more politically engaged than prior generations & less likely to vote Republican. It’s over for Trump/MAGA, they just don’t know it yet.
Nothing in the 14th Amendment requires that the candidate who is withdrawn from the presidential ballot has to have been convicted of insurrection in a court. Those people requesting that withdrawal of Trump merely have to assert that he was the Head Schemer in the insurrection of January 6, 2021–a violent attempt to overthrow our government–and is thus ineligible to be President of this country. I mean, we have all heard what he said and Twittered to his followers, and saw the insurrection on TV, live!
We should mount a pro-14th Amendment movement in many states, so that Trump has to occupy his and the GOP Party’s time until and beyond November 2024 with those many-state additional legal challenges to his legitimacy. It will keep him in the news, sure, but as the subject of what probably will be a NON-VIOLENT citizen uprising against Trump, a grass-roots rejection of this massive loser.
Why does anyone think he can hide from the people? This would be fun to watch, with the MAGA types starting to question themselves about their cult leader.
Nope, that’s why I said he deserves to be 14th’d, or, in other words, he deserves to be convicted. I was offering an opinion, friend.
They would have to wait to bump him off the ballot until fall of 2024. The Democrats need him around until then. He keeps the Dem base riled up and donating. They also want him to meddle in the Republican primaries and make that a sh_t show.
What would the media actually report on if they weren’t obsessed with Trump? Real news?
Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for President. Anyone with any sense is tired of hearing about him, but it is impossible to ignore the fact that he is news.
Since you seem to be so embarrassed by him, does that mean you won’t support him for President?
Lesser of two evils.
I stopped voting for Democrats in the early 90’s.
Working on straight commission, getting married, buying a home in a large city, and having a child, all in that order, changed how I vote.
Trump is an idiot. Most of his policies were good. Not all.
I would still have to vote for him over Gavin Newsome, who will be the Dem candidate in 2024.
Just to be clear, this is what you will be voting for.
https://www.salon.com/2023/09/07/plans-to-become-a-dictator–denial-will-not-save-you/
In essence you’re saying “As long as I personally get a tax cut, I’ll gladly vote to destroy the country and for the imprisonment and murder of millions of innocents.”
I doubt American “conservatives” will object to having a white nationalist dictator, unfortunately…
It appears the Age of Trumpolini has ended the comment feature of Minnpost. Regrettable, but understandable. My best to all who have read and commented over the years!
Your certainty based on your careful analysis of the positions and performance of Gavin Newsome?
Sean Hannity agrees with you. At least until Newsome made him look like the fact free, incompetent blowhard that he is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5zP54GRE00
“Hannity pressed on, contending that businesses were fleeing California after “paying that high tax bill” — a comment that prompted apparent exasperation from Newsom.
“This is on its way to be the fourth-largest economy in the world. What are you arguing for? Mississippi’s economic policy?” asked Newsom, speaking over Hannity’s attempts to interject.
“Literally that’s what you’re arguing for. The great [former Republican Gov.] Sam Brownback’s Kansas policy? It was a debacle — no economic growth. Seventy-one percent of the GDP in America are [in] blue counties,” Newsom added, saying that economically successful states like California were “subsidizing” those that employed Hannity’s favored policies.”
“Trump is an idiot.”
At last – common ground!
“Most of his policies were good. Not all.”
There goes the common ground.
Specific policies are only part of the equation. Trump has repeatedly expressed his intention to use a second term largely as a means for exacting revenge on those he feels treated him “unfairly (viz. the American electorate).” His minions are making not-so-secret plans to dismantle government reforms that have been in place since the Chester Arthur administration, and generally to subvert democratic norms and institutions. Yet you would overlook all of that because of your own self-interest (do you even care what kind of country your children will grow up in? Do you want the governing style of that “idiot” normalized?).
“I would still have to vote for him over Gavin Newsome, who will be the Dem candidate in 2024.”
I don’t know who “Gavin Newsome” is, but Governor Newsom has publicly dismissed any notion of running for President in 2024; in fact, he said that if President Biden “falters,” Vice President Harris would be the natural choice for the Democratic nominee.
Of course, Governor Newsom would be a convenient scary candidate for Republicans: “Look – a liberal from California!” So much easier than arguing actual policies, right?
Unfortunately, the “lesser of two evils” refrain from Trump supporters is just an excuse to mask what should be their moral outrage at an ex-President who has constantly lied, promotes hate and division, fuels conspiracy theories, sides with Communist Russia over a democratic Ukraine, and ignites an insurrection against the United States government.
In this news summary, the reporting on whether Trump is eligible for the ballot comes from the local Fox affiliate. It seems they’re asking SOS Simon (no relation) about Trump’s eligibility. Can you explain how this is the media riling up the dem base? Because it seems to me Fox is trying to create a story where there’s not one…
Kicking Trump off the ballot is the last thing Democrats should want to do. Biden will beat Trump. Not sure he would beat a semi-competent, non-indicted Republican candidate. Secretly, many Republicans want Trump banned and sent to prison, but they can’t say that out loud.
“It is not our call. That is not the call of this office. That has always been the call of the courts. We are not the eligibility police,” Simon told FOX 9. Simon predicts the issue will eventually end up in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The fact that the democrats are so afraid that Trump will win even after multiple impeachments and indictments, that with the election over a year away they’re resorting to trying to keep him off the ballot, is amusing and instructive. This smells of Obama’s involvement. He won election to the senate by getting his opponent thrown off the ballot too.
“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Trump has not even been charged with insurrection much less convicted of it. I can tell you what SCOTUS will do, and probably by a 9-0 vote.
The loudest voices advocating for the 14th amendment to come into play are conservative constitutional scholars.
Care to read over the paper by two Federalist Society judges stating that in their view he’s disqualified from running?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751
An interesting SCOTUS vote if argued by Tribe and Luttig. The former was the Constitutional law professor for 3 of the justices and the latter edged out by Alito for the court nomination
Hardly 9 – 0
These 2 guys Constitution cred surpass all 9 of the justices.
And not to forget, CA has more GOP delegates than any other state. Kick DJT off the primary ballot in enough states and he does not get the nomination
Why did they take away the bikes?