This wasn't on my bingo card...
Fight attacks on political rights! Defend Trump’s right to ballot -- The MilitantWithout even a court hearing, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows threw Donald Trump off the presidential ballot Dec. 28, following a similar ruling by Colorado’s Supreme Court. Both decisions were based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, adopted in 1868 to bar former Confederate rebel officers from taking office after they were defeated in the Second American Revolution — the war to overthrow the slavocracy.
The questions involved in the attack on Trump are weighty, as working people face an economic and social crisis today bred by the workings of capitalism and are looking for ways to advance our class interests. For this we need constitutional rights.
Section 3 was adopted as part of deep-going revolutionary advances that followed the Civil War. Many ex-Confederate officers waged fierce battles seeking to deny African Americans land and equal rights, including the right to vote.
Barring Trump has nothing to do with those struggles, but would be a serious blow to basic constitutional rights, preventing working people from voting for the candidate of their choice. As the Colorado and Maine rulings are appealed, Democrats are working overtime to use a barrage of court cases to short-circuit the 2024 elections and swing the vote for unpopular President Joseph Biden.
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