Another One Bites the Dust: New Hampshire Slaps Down Latest Attempt to Keep Trump off the Ballot

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By Jeff Charles

Democrats’ effort to rig the outcome of the upcoming 2024 presidential election isn’t going so well. The anti-Trump faction has been trying desperately to ensure that former President Donald Trump does not set foot in the White House as president again. Their plan? Using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to keep his name off the ballots in as many states as they can.

Unfortunately for the left, New Hampshire just became the latest state to reject an effort to disqualify the Orange Man What Is Bad™ from appearing on the ballot.

The top election official in New Hampshire says he won’t invoke the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in order to block former President Donald Trump from the ballot in the state that holds the first primary in the Republican nominating calendar.

New Hampshire Secretary of State Dave Scanlan on Wednesday also announced that the filing period for the 2024 presidential primary will start on Oct. 11 — meaning it’s nearly all but certain the date of the contest will lead to a collision with the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

At the news conference at the state house in Concord, called in part to address legal efforts by some Republicans in New Hampshire to prevent the former president from getting his name on the 2024 ballot, Scanlan said that as long as Trump “submits his declaration of candidacy and signs it under the penalties of perjury, pays the $1,000 filing fee, his name will appear on the presidential primary ballot.”

For those unfamiliar, the provision in the 14th Amendment that Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans are trying to employ against Trump mandates that people who are involved in rebellions against the United States are prohibited from holding office. It was originally used against Confederate officials after the conclusion of the Civil War. These people allege that since Trump supposedly inspired the riot at the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, he is disqualified under this provision.

Republican attorney Bryant “Corky” Messner had been considering filing a lawsuit as others did in Colorado and Florida if the former president sought to put his name on the ballot. He questioned whether Trump was still eligible due to the 14th Amendment.

John Anthony Castro, a Texas-based lawyer, actually filed a lawsuit in New Hampshire with the same objective in mind.

Earlier this month, a federal judge in Florida dismissed a similar lawsuit, noting that the plaintiff “lacked standing” to file it in the first place. This was the first of what will likely be many failed efforts to block Trump from appearing on the ballot.

It appears that so far, none of the secretaries of state are buying what the anti-Trumpers are selling.

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Let the voters decide as part of the democratic process in our constitutional republic.

Another blow to Soros and his Globalists Open Society groups I hope it gets worse for them

Face Trump in a fair, straight-up, no fraud election, you chicken-shit cowards.

We did that already, and saw what happened. Trump doesn’t play by the rules necessary to preserve democracy or the rule of law. You should find a candidate who does.

Face Trump in a fair, straight-up, no fraud election, you chicken-shit cowards.

No, you didn’t. Try it again.

To be clear, the people behind the New Hampshire effort to keep Trump off the primary ballot are REPUBLICANS.

To be clear, anyone that does it are gutless cowards and Democrats are leading the charge.

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Newly unsealed court records indicate special counsel Jack Smith’s team warned that former President Trump could “precipitate violence” unless the court shielded its efforts to obtain information on his Twitter account.

The records show Smith’s office obtained a total of 32 direct messages from Trump’s account as part of its investigation, with a copy of the warrant also unsealed Friday showing the breadth of the information prosecutors sought.

The 71-page filing from prosecutors, submitted to the court in April but unsealed Friday, offers new details about why Smith’s team feared alerting Trump to the matter.

The secret battle to obtain the records was revealed in an opinion unsealed in August, showing that Twitter, now known as X, was fined $350,000 for not complying with a court order to turn over the records.

Earlier unsealed court records showed the special counsel was concerned that if Trump knew about the warrant to access his account he could disclose it to the public, something they said “could precipitate violence as occurred following the public disclosure of the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago.”…

09/15/23 – McCarthy drops f-bomb, venting frustration with GOP members

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) vented his frustration about the hard-line conservatives holding up appropriations, dropping an expletive as he dared his fiercest critics to attempt a vote to oust him.

During a closed-door conference meeting Thursday, McCarthy addressed an uptick in threats from members to call a motion to vacate the chair — a move to force a vote on ousting the Speaker.

“If you want to file a motion to vacate, then file the f‑‑‑ing motion,” McCarthy said, Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) recounted.

McCarthy’s comments follow Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) earlier this week explicitly threatening to call a motion to vacate if McCarthy does not follow through with a number of spending priorities and votes on bills that his detractors were promised in January.

And it also comes after hard-line conservatives, who have been battling with GOP leadership for months over topline numbers in spending bills, forced GOP leaders to punt consideration of a Department of Defense (DOD) appropriations bill Wednesday.

“I showed frustration in here because I am frustrated,” McCarthy told reporters after the meeting. “Frustrated with some people in the conference.”

“We had the DOD appropriations bill yesterday, couldn’t put it on the floor,” McCarthy said. “I don’t have one complaint by any member of what’s wrong with this bill.”