Published December 24, 2023
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized his Lt. Governor for calls ‘to explore every legal option’ to prevent Donald Trump from being on the 2024 ballot
- Eleni Kounalakis sent a public letter to the California Secretary of State on Tuesday, asking for an investigation into potentially following Colorado ‘s lead
- Colorado’s disqualification – stayed due to appeals – was made under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, banning insurrectionists from running
Eleni Kounalakis sent a public letter to the California Secretary of State on Tuesday, asking for an investigation into potentially following Colorado’s lead and blocking the former president.
But Democratic Newsom hit out at the idea and insisted ‘we defeat candidates at the polls’ in his state.
On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court barred Trump from their state’s ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits anyone who swore an oath to support the Constitution and then ‘engaged in insurrection’ against it from holding office.
A decision to remove the former president from the ballot in California would be hugely significant, given that it has more delegates than any other state in the union.
Kounalakis – a Soros-backed progressive who is campaigning to replace term-limited Gavin Newsom as governor in 2026 – wrote to the California Secretary of State, asking for an investigation into her state potentially following Colorado’s lead.
She said it was a ‘dire matter that puts at stake the sanctity of our constitution and our democracy’ – and denied that she was acting out of ‘political gamesmanship.’
But Newsom slammed the suggestion in a statement and said: ‘There is no doubt that Donald Trump is a threat to our liberties and even to our democracy.
‘But in California, we defeat candidates at the polls. Everything else is a political distraction.’
Kounalakis in her letter on Tuesday wrote: ‘California must stand on the right side of history.
‘California is obligated to determine if Trump is ineligible for the California ballot for the same reasons described in Anderson (the Colorado decision).
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SOURCE: www.dailymail.co.uk
RELATED: Gavin Newsom blasts effort to block Trump from California ballot: ‘We defeat candidates at the polls’
The California governor said that they “defeat candidates in the polls’
Published December 23, 2023
Gov. Gavin Newsom critized fellow Democrats for considering blocking former president Donald Trump from California’s 2024 presidential primary ballot, saying that, “we defeat candidates at the polls.”
“There is no doubt that Donald Trump is a threat to our liberties and even to our democracy,” Newsom said in a statement. “But in California, we defeat candidates at the polls.”
“Everything else is a political distraction,” Newsom said.
The effort to boot Trump off the ballot has been gaining momentum after Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis sent a letter to California Secretary of State, Dr. Shirley Weber, and urged her to “explore” all legal options of removing the former President from the state’s ballot.
“Based on the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling in Anderson v. Griswold (2023 CO 63), I urge you to explore every legal option to remove former President Donald Trump from California’s 2024 presidential primary ballot,” the letter to Weber said.
In the letter, Kounalakis argued that persuing legal options for removing Trump is about “protecting the fundamental pillars of our democracy.”
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SOURCE: www.foxnews.com
RELATED: Lt. Gov. urges CA to follow Colorado’s move to keep Trump off primary ballot
Published December 20, 2023
Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis is urging California’s Secretary of State to explore every legal option to remove former President Donald Trump from California’s 2024 presidential primary ballot.
The request follows Colorado’s Supreme Court ruling Tuesday, which ordered the former president’s name to be excluded from the state’s Republican presidential primary ballot.
Colorado’s Supreme Court based the exclusion order on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies those who engage in insurrection.
The landmark decision under the Civil War-era provision is unprecedented, and it marks the first time a court has found him to be ineligible to return to the White House due to his conduct surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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SOURCE: www.cbsnews.com
