By Editorial Board - The Washington Times - Tuesday, February 20, 2024
OPINION:
Some Democrats are hatching a plan to reverse the outcome of the 2024 presidential election if it doesn’t go their way. As Markus Batchelor told the crowd at the Stop the Coup 2025 rally in Washington last month: “Coups can be committed at the ballot. Coups can be committed by seemingly democratic processes.”
Mr. Batchelor, a former District of Columbia school board member and national political director of the left-wing activist group People for the American Way, was speaking about his opponents. As is so often the case, however, his words are almost a self-reflection on the left’s plan to “defend democracy” by refusing to seat Donald Trump should he come out on top in November.
Having considered arguments in the Colorado ballot access case, the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to slap down Democratic maneuvers to delete Mr. Trump from the ballot. The justices can do so without wading into the murky waters of whether the Jan. 6 Capitol fracas qualifies as an insurrection.
Precedent buried in an 1869 opinion by Chief Justice Salmon Chase suggests the application of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — the insurrection clause — is a question for Congress, not the courts. That seems to be the next avenue of attack.
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