Let's face it. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) is not the sharpest tool in the drawer. But at this point, he may be trying to go for the crown of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) or Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) as the worst person from California. He's certainly trying.
As I noted he got completely leveled by Fox's Bill Melugin when he tried to dunk on former President Donald Trump and the GOP over border problems and the more than 76,000 in a month that crossed during Trump's tenure. Melugin then brought him up short, explaining that now, under Joe Biden, we are on a pace to hit 300,000 in a month and 269,000 in September. That's how bad it has gotten with Biden and the Democrats in charge. Lieu should have known that, but he didn't. Which says something about how he does his job, and none of it is good.
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But Ted wasn't happy just saying that. He seems to want to add to the bad takes. He weighed in on the Colorado Supreme Court decision to boot former President Donald Trump off the ballot.
The Colorado trial court HELD A TRIAL and made rock solid findings of fact that Trump “engaged in insurrection.” SCOTUS would not have any basis to overrule the findings.
The only way SCOTUS can overturn is to make the perverse ruling that Presidents can engage in insurrection.
This is just nonsense. There was a hearing where there was no due process for Trump and no jury. Let's listen to what former Attorney General Bill Barr has to say about it.
Their "evidence" was the political nonsense of the Jan. 6 Committee. That's not the way that you take away Trump's rights or the right of the people to vote for him.
There was ample reason to question the decision in Colorado.
The problem, as Justice Carlos Samour noted in his dissent, is that the only way you could boot him was if he was found guilty under the federal statute that applied for insurrection. Yet he wasn't even charged with it.
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The district court judge in Colorado also believed that the 14th Amendment didn't apply because it didn't apply to presidents, that he was not an "officer" since he was elected by the people. Ted seems to be skipping over that or not understanding that fact. So that's also a question here.
Not to mention the facts that don't support that there was an insurrection, as George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley explained. Trump encouraged people to act peacefully and patriotically, so there's a real problem with the facts of the case.
Plus, this was the only case on the 14th Amendment that the anti-Trump forces won; they lost the others that were brought in other states.
So no, the findings in Colorado are the furthest things from "rock solid," and if the Supreme Court takes it up, they probably would overturn it. Not because they would be finding that people can engage in insurrections as Lieu claims, but because they are properly applying the law.
If Trump can get booted under this, anyone can get booted for anything when there's no due process.
Either Lieu, who is an attorney, isn't being straight on the question, or he's truly clueless as to the questions here.
Lieu even capped that comment off with this one in which he said if SCOTUS finds for Trump, that would mean Joe Biden could do anything, including not leave office.
Saving Democracy by attacking it, that's the Democrats.
Lieu got decimated in another ratio.