The Illinois elections board unanimously voted to keep GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on the ballot. This is a constitutional triumph and a rejection of Democrats’ election interfering lawfare.
Democrats have tried to interfere in and rig elections for centuries now, from Andrew Jackson up to our present day. But in this case, with the Illinois board, it seems as if both Democrats and Republicans recognized that it’s necessary to allow citizens to choose whom they want as president, as the Founders intended. This decision is also a rejection of the Democrats’ nonsensical argument that the 14th Amendment’s Civil War-inspired insurrection clause applies to Trump and disqualifies him from office.
Just the News reported on Jan. 30:
In a unanimous bipartisan vote, the Illinois State Board of Elections dismissed the challenge to Trump's eligibility. The state panel determined that it did not have the jurisdiction to make a decision on the 14th Amendment argument invoked against Trump's candidacy.
Naturally an appeal is already planned. Republican democracy is an unacceptable reality for Democrats, who really want an oligarchy where they decide whom they want in office and all of us peons just agree with them.
The Fourteenth Amendment’s Section 3 prevents those who “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof,” from holding office. Except that Trump never incited insurrection. Not to mention the 14th Amendment clearly designated Congress as being the entity to determine eligibility. As I have previously explained, the Fourteenth Amendment was meant to allow Congress to prevent Confederate traitors from holding office. Unfortunately, in the long run, this did not actually occur. Many former Confederates held office after the Civil War thanks to their Democrat cronies, much to the detriment of black Americans’ and white Republicans’ civil rights, both on a state level and a national level.
Related: Dershowitz: Colorado Booting Trump from Ballot ‘Absurd,’ ‘Unconstitutional’
It’s ironic that the 14th Amendment clause was originally hated by some Democrats because they were the party of the Confederacy; now they’re trying to misapply the clause to their Republican opponent.
Not that this is the first time Democrats have tried to rig an election by excluding a Republican opponent from the ballot. In the 1860 presidential election, 10 southern states did not issue ballots for Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln, who was opposed to Southern Democrats’ favorite institution: slavery. When Lincoln won the election, states almost immediately began seceding without even waiting for Lincoln to take office. A theme in a number of the secession documents (besides the fact that they cite slavery as their reason for secession) is that Lincoln’s mere election is listed as a triggering factor in secession, because of his opposition to slavery, even though he intended to phase it out legally and, if possible, gradually.
While the “Democratic” Party has always been corrupt and inclined to meddle with the democratic process, there have always been some Democrats and many Republicans who believe that free elections should determine who leads the United States, as the Constitution’s signers intended. Thankfully, it seems the Illinois elections board shares that opinion.
