But Can You Blame Them? December 20, 2023December 19, 2023 I opined in September that CREW would win its suit to keep Trump off the ballot — yesterday, it did — and that “when it gets to the Supreme Court” — as it shortly will — “at least five Justices will vote to affirm.” We’ll soon see. Justices who do vote to uphold Colorado’s decision will be risking assassination — that’s the world Trump has given us (“hang Mike Pence!”) — so they may not have the courage. But Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment seems clear. You can’t incite a mob to attack the Capitol with the goal of overturning what your own appointee has told you is the most secure election in our nation’s history . . . watch gleefully for three hours as it does . . . and then, under the terms of Section 3, hold office again. Let alone be deemed to have fulfilled your Oath of Office. Those who say the Court shouldn’t decide whether Trump can be president, the people should, may be forgetting that the people did — by a margin of 7 million. If the Court does uphold Colorado’s decision, and with it, the Constitution on which our republic rests, the Secretaries of State elsewhere may have an easier time following suit. And, no, the attack on the Capitol didn’t “just happen.” As reported yesterday: Jan. 6 Rally Organizers Lied About Plan to March to the Capitol, Report Finds . . . On Jan. 4, Kylie Jane Kremer wrote in a text message: “POTUS is going to have us march there/the Capitol.” She added: “It can also not get out about the march because I will be in trouble with the National Park Service and all the agencies, but POTUS is going to just call for it ‘unexpectedly.’” . . . Worth reading in full. (But can you blame them? If you’re trying to stage a coup, you have to be deceptive. Read Liz Cheney’s book.) Finally, from Vanity Fair: Mike Johnson Wrote the Foreword for a Racist, Homophobic, Anti-Poor Book That Endorsed Pizzagate and Denigrated a Prisoner of War. He says he never read the passages in question and “strongly disagrees” with them. Also worth reading in full. (But would someone please remind Vanity Fair that it’s “foreword,” as I’ve corrected it here, not “foreward,” as headlined and in the body of the piece?) If I don’t see you before Monday — I may be taking a couple of days off — please have a great weekend and a Christmas filled with love, peace, and goodwill.