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DeSantis 'Looking at' Barring Biden from 2024 Ballot If Trump's Removal Is Allowed to Stand

Calvin Freiburger : Jan 10, 2024  LifeSiteNews.com

"I don't think that's the right way to do it, but I don't believe in fighting with one hand tied behind your back. Whatever the rules are applied to us, we're going to fight back and play the rules the other way." -Governor Ron DeSantis

[LifeSiteNews.com] Florida Republican governor and Republican presidential contender Ron DeSantis said Friday that he was "looking at" the possibility of having ...Joe Biden removed from the Sunshine State's ballot under the same logic Democrats have invoked to bar former President Donald Trump from the ballot in Colorado. (Image: via LifeSiteNews)

Last month, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that Trump was ineligible for the presidency under the Disqualification Clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which says that "[n]o person" may "hold any office" who has "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against" the United States, "or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

Democrats argue, and the court agreed, that Trump did so by "engag[ing] in insurrection" by calling for the infamous January 6, 2021 demonstration to protest Congressional certification of his 2020 loss to Biden, which devolved into a riot at the US Capitol Building. The FBI eventually had to admit it did not find evidence that the riot was intended by Trump or otherwise planned by those around him.

DeSantis and Trump's other GOP competitors overwhelmingly denounced the ruling as a politically motivated abuse of power, a flouting of both facts and law, and an unwarranted meddling in the election process that ought to be overturned. The US Supreme Court confirmed last week that it will review the Colorado ruling next month; even some anti-Trump liberals have acknowledged that disqualifying Trump is likely unconstitutional... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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