Former Attorney General Bill Barr weighs in on the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot. Barr, in a recent interview on CNN’s “The Lead,” made his thoughts known loud and clear. Despite being a vocal opponent of Trump for the Republican nomination, he called the Colorado case “legally wrong and untenable.”
Now, isn’t that interesting? Here we have a man who isn’t exactly on Team Trump saying that the move to keep Trump off the ballot is a stretch too far. He even went as far as to say that this kind of hyper-aggressive mission to knock Trump out of the race could backfire. His reasoning? Trump feeds on grievance like a fire feeds on oxygen. This move, according to Barr, could just add fuel to the Trump fire.
But Barr didn’t stop there. He went on to argue that to deprive someone of the right to hold office requires due process. You know, that whole “innocent until proven guilty” thing we’ve got going on in our justice system?
According to Barr, the case involves two core issues – did the public disturbance rise to the level of insurrection and what was the role of the individual in question. And these, he points out, are complicated facts that were denied due process in the five-day hearing without a jury.
When asked about how the U.S. Supreme Court would handle this case, Barr had a pretty confident response. He believes that if they take the case, they’re going to “slap it down quickly.”
It’s a fascinating turn of events in this ongoing political drama. So, will the U.S. Supreme Court take the case? And if they do, will they indeed slap it down as Barr predicts?