Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold received criticism for her actions attempting to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot by declaring him ineligible due to insurrection, as well as her subsequent reaction after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against her decision.
Griswold’s order cited Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, though neither Congress nor courts had made an insurrection finding against Trump.
After the ruling, Griswold expressed disappointment while on MSNBC but was called out by critics for her preference to enforce her own view rather than defer to voters, as well as for claiming to want to “save democracy” after an attempt to override the popular will.
“My larger reaction is disappointment,” Griswold said. “I do believe that states should be able under our constitution to bar oath-breaking insurrectionists. And ultimately this decision leaves open the door for Congress to act, to pass authorizing legislation. But we know that Congress is a nearly non-functioning body. So ultimately, it will be up to the American voters to save our democracy in November.”
Commenters argued Griswold and others dislike leaving important decisions up to voters and that her actions amounted to trying to substitute a leftist opinion for the electoral process.
“Truth has been getting inverted at a cyclic rate lately and I’m just glad regular people see through it,” The Daily Caller’s Geoffrey Ingersoll wrote.
“Absolutely [expletive] that a person who unilaterally removed a candidate from the ballot can worry about ‘democracy being subverted’ and not get laughed right off the screen.”
“GOD how they hate leaving ‘democracy’ up to the voters!” actor Nick Searcy wrote.
“Gotta admire a fascist crying that they tried to seize power to ‘save democracy,’” Derek Hunter said.
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