News flash (in the pants): USSC decides to hear case on whether the 14th A bars Trump from office

John Castro

(for real?)

Newsweek reports:

The legal debate about whether or not former President Donald Trump should be allowed to appear on the 2024 ballot has made its way before the Supreme Court.

The court distributed John Castro v. Donald Trump to the justices for conference on Wednesday ahead of the upcoming term, which will begin on October 2. Conference is to take place on September 26 and the case is expected to be decided on or before October 9.

Castro, a tax attorney running for the Republican nomination next year, sent his petition to the Supreme Court last month, asking the justices to answer whether political candidates can challenge the eligibility of another candidate of the same party running for the same nomination "based on a political competitive injury in the form a diminution of votes."

The lawsuit is seeking to argue that Trump should not be allowed to run for the White House based on section three of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies individuals from holding public office if they have "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the United States. While Trump has not been charged with insurrection, Castro is pointing to Trump's role in the January 6 Capitol riot.

This is strange. If the USSC (US Supreme Court) wanted to punt they could have denied standing and just tossed the case out. A lower court has already done that, arguing the people who filed that lawsuit were not damaged by Trump running again. 

This case is different because Castro is running for president and he argues tangible damages will be in the form of votes lost to Trump if he is allowed to run for president. That damages argument just might be enough to force the court to hear the case instead of punting on it and running away as is probably the case.

Dang, this one could be an actual game changer, assuming this is for real (not a hoax I just fell for).

Naturally, Trump is on the attack against 14th Amendment challenges:

"Like Election Interference, it is just another 'trick' being used by the Radical Left Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, to again steal an Election that their candidate, the WORST, MOST INCOMPETENT, & MOST CORRUPT President in U.S. history, is incapable of winning in a Free and Fair Election. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

Those darned Radical Left Communists, Marxists, and Fascists are up to no good again. Unleash the KRAKEN!