Left’s assault on Supreme Court an attempt to discourage Trump


Using a 14th Amendment clause, a left-leaning group in Colorado is arguing that former President Donald Trump should be kept off the presidential ballot. This clause disqualifies individuals who have “engaged in an insurrection or rebellion” from seeking higher office. Such challenges may arise in other states, potentially leading to Supreme Court involvement.

Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten sees a coordinated effort by the Left to target conservative Supreme Court justices as part of their strategy to prevent Trump’s reelection bid.

It seems inevitable to me that some or all of these cases are going to land at the Supreme Court — the last place that could provide a remedy for a hyper-politicized and weaponized injustice system. That’s one of the key reasons I believe that Democrats have concurrently been engaged in a massive de-legitimization campaign against that court, as its composition has swung at least on paper towards the Right. 

The Left’s assault on conservatives on the court, and the court broadly, of course, goes back a long way, from Borking, to the high-tech lynching of Clarence Thomas, to the Kavanaugh caper. That assault reached new heights with the leak of the Dobbs abortion opinion, with protesters agitating outside the houses of justices for days … protesters not prosecuted, despite their violating of the law by protesting outside their homes — an effort culminating in a plotted assassination of Justice Kavanaugh.