“If the SCOTUS refuses to disqualify Donald Trump from running for POTUS after leading an insurrection on January 6, 2021, then it will be the latest indication that the Confederates lost the military battles but won the legal war.”
Notorious race grifter Ibram X. Kendi, who writes anti-white books for babies and blew through millions of dollars at Boston University without producing a single piece of scholarship, has now gone on record saying that the Supreme Court of the United States has an obligation to unilateraly prevent the American people from being able to vote for Donald Trump for president.
Trump has been removed from the 2024 presidential ballot by an unelected Democrat activist official in Maine and Demcorat judges in Colorado. The Colorado Secretary of State, however, said that Trump would remain on the ballot pending appeal. A challenge seeking to prevent Michiganders from being able to vote for Trump failed, and California has, after an initial inquiry, declined to challenge the rights of Californians to vote for Trump.
Yet for Kendi, the matter should be decided by the Supreme Court. He believes the highest court in the US should prevent Americans from voting for the candidate of their choice. His reasoning is that if they do not do this, "it will be the latest indication that the Confederates lost the military battles but won the legal war."
Just like the rest of his discourse and rhetoric, the whole thing is about racism, and systemic racism at that. For him, a declination by the Supreme Court to remove Trump from the ballot would indicate that the system is still rigged in favor of white people.
"If the SCOTUS refuses to disqualify Donald Trump from running for POTUS after leading an insurrection on January 6, 2021, then it will be the latest indication that the Confederates lost the military battles but won the legal war," he said on X.
Like many of those who seek to remove Trump from the ballot, on 14th Amendment grounds, he claims that then-President Trump "engaged in an insurrection against the US." He claims this despite there having been no charge of insurrection leveled against Trump in any of the four criminal cases pending against him, and certainly no conviction.
In each case where it has been ruled that Trump's name must be struck from the ballot, the entities have determined, without a trial that Trump is guilty of something he was never charged with, and that he is guilty of it. Trump has not been given the opportunity to defend himself against the charge, there has been no hearing or trial, only a judgment.
The Colorado ballot case is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court by the Trump campaign, and state Republicans have also said that they will appeal the ruling. The Supreme Court has so far declined to intervene in any of the cases against Trump, despite insistence from Biden's special counsel Jack Smith, who asked that a motion filed by Trump stating that he had presidential immunity at the time of the alleged "crime" be expedited. That question will come before a DC appellate court in January.
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