Actions come with consequences. That’s the root of human experience, but it’s a maxim the leftists behind the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to kick former President Donald Trump off the Centennial State’s presidential primary ballot absolutely ignored. And their failure to consider the disastrous consequences might just be the leading reason why they are doomed to fail.
During Thursday’s oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson, U.S. Supreme Court justices — on the right and the left — peppered Jason Murray, attorney for the anti-Trumpers who brought the Colorado case, with questions of “consequentialist considerations.” Said considerations include the likelihood of political reprisals.
“Counsel, what do you do with the, what would seem to me to be plain consequences of your position?” Chief Justice John Roberts asked Murray.
“If Colorado’s position is upheld, surely there will be disqualification proceedings on the other side. And some of those will succeed. Some of them will have different standards of proof. Some of them will have different rules about evidence,” Roberts asserted. “I would expect that, you know, a goodly number of states will say, whoever the Democratic candidate is, you’re off the ballot. And others for the Republican candidate, you’re off the ballot.”
“It will come down to just a handful of states that are going to decide the presidential election. That’s a pretty daunting consequence.”
Murray shrugged off the central question of truth and consequences, insisting over and over again that Trump “engaged in insurrection.” The word and its fellow noun “insurrectionist” turned
