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Colorado Lawyer Flails As Clarence Thomas
Calmly Destroys His Trump Disqualification Argument

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Posted By: earlybird, 2/8/2024 8:09:16 PM

By merely asking for examples, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas calmly destroyed respondents’ argument for disqualifying former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s 2024 presidential primary ballot. The moment came on Thursday morning, during oral arguments on Trump’s appeal to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s Dec. 19 decision to keep him off the Centennial State’s 2024 primary ballot. Colorado’s highest court claimed in its ruling that the former president can be “disqualified” from holding office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,

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Arrogant pea-green Jason Murray did indeed flail. as he tried to argue the Constiturtion and the frameer's intent,,,and his own legal opinion that insurrection has been committed at point it occurs. Never mind any process of law. It just IS and no need to prove guilt.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 2/8/2024 8:33:04 PM (No. 1653718)
Jason Murray was throwing shite against the SCOTUS walls trying to get some of it to stick. It didn't. And his shite still stunk.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 2/8/2024 8:33:11 PM (No. 1653719)
The argument was pathetically stupid.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: downnout 2/8/2024 8:34:59 PM (No. 1653720)
Mr. Murray’s law school should revoke his diploma.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: NorthernDog 2/8/2024 8:39:01 PM (No. 1653724)
It's funny that Leftists throw a 30-something year old lawyer to argue this case before the Supreme Court. The more seasoned lawyers didn't want to touch the case.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: padiva 2/8/2024 8:45:46 PM (No. 1653732)
Ahhh. The young inexperienced attorney. He thinks his opinions are the law. (he better not have any skeletons in his closet.)
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Reply 6 - Posted by: walcb 2/8/2024 8:58:19 PM (No. 1653740)
Thomas was very patient with the attorney's attempt to dodge the question--it usually doesn't work that way at the Supreme Court.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: PrayerWarrior 2/8/2024 9:10:36 PM (No. 1653748)
Ah, the Southern gentleman talking to a young whippersnapper. It makes me think of a cat patiently playing with a mouse knowing he could kill the mouse at any time, but is enjoying the sport. How we love Justice Clarence Thomas. He should be the Chief Justice not that Rino John Roberts who is now in charge.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Gordon Mills 2/8/2024 10:07:56 PM (No. 1653795)
Blank GWB. He should have nominated Clarence Thomas rather than Judas John Roberts.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: rememberwhen 2/8/2024 10:39:01 PM (No. 1653814)
The argument in support of disqualification is so incredibly weak that it will not hold up against any reasonably cogent contrary argument. It fails on several different bases, among them: (1) The president is not "an officer of the United States" as specific by the amendment; no reasonable argument can be made that what occurred on January 6 (an event which it's a stretch to call a riot and in which no one except the authorities was armed) constitutes an insurrection; the facts establish clearly that Donald Trump didn't incite anything except a peaceful demonstration. There may well be more. I almost feel sorry for anyone asked to defend such a specious argument before a giant intellect like Clarence Thomas.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: janjan 2/8/2024 11:02:03 PM (No. 1653826)
I would think that there’s 2 questions to be asked here. Was Trump charged by anyone with insurrection? Was he convicted of insurrection? The answer is no. That makes the entire matter null and void.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: WV.Hillbilly 2/8/2024 11:04:04 PM (No. 1653829)
Liberals in the past: "Clarence Thomas never asks any questions!" Liberals now "Clarence Thomas asks too many questions!"
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Reply 12 - Posted by: mifla 2/9/2024 5:25:28 AM (No. 1653904)
It wasn't just Thomas. Other Justices kept telling Colorado's lawyer to stay on topic and to stop jumping all over the place with contrived situations. I actually felt sorry for the kid. This could be a 9-0 decision and a message to Colorado to read the Constitution and stop wasting the court's time.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Rumblehog 2/9/2024 5:51:36 AM (No. 1653918)
The fact that 99.999% of all lawyers NEVER have a chance to argue a case before the Supreme Court, therefore it is held as a rare opportunity, and a big deal, to add it to their curriculum vitae. Even more rare is when a lawyer goes down in history arguing the most wrong-headed of cases thereby displaying their total lack of understanding of Civics 101, let alone knowledge of the Law. These lawyers from Colorado appeared before the Supreme Court as nothing more than braying jackasses in a barn.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 2/9/2024 8:59:08 AM (No. 1654061)
Murray is another spoiled brat graduate of, guess where? Harvard. Colorado's legal ranks must have concluded that secretary of state Griswold's case to exclude Trump from the state's primary ballot was a lost cause from the very beginning. So, they put this 30-year-old kid barely old enough to shave in front of the SCOTUS because more senior dim attorneys wouldn't touch the case. Justice Thomas did a great job in taking this kid apart.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: DVC 2/9/2024 10:32:07 AM (No. 1654118)
A lightweight leftist ideological fool flailing against many superior, clearer, smarter minds.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Zigrid 2/9/2024 10:57:05 AM (No. 1654148)
This poor sap has done himself a dis/service...he's going to carrying this failure to his grave...just as jack smith does...and the establishment will send him to the Haig to get him out of the country....
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Reply 17 - Posted by: jhpeters2 2/9/2024 11:31:32 AM (No. 1654168)
I'm not sure why I have this overwhelming "gut" feeling that this know nothing, wet behind the ears "lawyer/trust fundee/kumbayya singer" is going to head straight back to law school as an perennial associate professor. Maybe its the easily access to confused females and coeds.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: LadyHen 2/9/2024 12:25:02 PM (No. 1654193)
This must have been a pleasure to behold. Clarence Thomas is a treasure.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Omen55 2/9/2024 5:52:40 PM (No. 1654420)
What Thomas could have really said. "That's not how it really works!"
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Reply 20 - Posted by: FJB 2/9/2024 6:14:27 PM (No. 1654428)
Justice Thomas. America needs you. MAGA
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Lawsy0 2/9/2024 9:29:43 PM (No. 1654519)
What if someone had invited Murray to dinner last night, and he inquired of the menu, was told the main dish was Crow--my advice would be to eat it while it's hot. It gets bitter when cold.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: thefield 2/10/2024 12:13:34 AM (No. 1654572)
I would not be such a gentleman. I would have told Mr. MURRY that this is not a school but the Supreme Court.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: broken01 2/12/2024 12:09:09 PM (No. 1656284)
No wonder the all about minorities left hates United State Supreme Court Clarence Thomas with the fury of 1000 suns. He so patiently and eloquently all but told that young upstart ambulance chasing lawyer to as my grandma used to say, "get that mess out of here."
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