From a Supreme Court amicus brief by former Michigan Congressman and 2024 Senate candidate Peter Meijer – who in 2022 was primaried out of office by MAGA assclown John Gibbs (who then lost) – filed Thursday in opposition to Trump being disqualified under the 14th Amendment:
The Honorable Peter Meijer is a former Republican Congressman who represented Michigan’s Third Congressional District from 2021 to 2023. Days after taking the oath of office and beginning his work as a congressman, Mr Meijer was inside the Capitol building when the riots broke out on January 6, 2021, and was hastily evacuated with his colleagues from the House Floor. Mr Meijer voted for the impeachment of former President Donald J Trump for his activities related to January 6, one of only ten House Republicans to do so. Mr Meijer therefore has a unique and demonstrable interest in this case. Mr Meijer believes that the Constitution and democratic process should prioritize the will of the voters – not judges and partisan Secretaries of State. Mr Meijer submits this brief in support of Petitioner Donald J Trump, because the Colorado Supreme Court’s extraconstitutional opinion is an affront to the very democracy it purports to protect.
In excluding President Trump from the ballot – and effectively concluding state courts and partisan state election officials across the country may do the same – the Colorado Supreme Court disclaims the Fourteenth Amendment’s clear entrustment of Section Three determinations to Congress and centuries of precedent to instead meddle in political questions that have been clearly assigned to the legislative branch.
So for those keeping score at home, Meijer, who under no circumstances was unaware that his vote to impeach the fat fuck on January 13, 2021 was also a signal of support for his permanent disqualification from office in a vote subsequent to his conviction (which didn’t happen), has now in the most literal way possible turned around on that in hopes that the Orange God Emperor will somehow forgive him and not endorse one of his opponents in the Michigan GOP Senate primary.
In related news, nearly 200 Republicans currently serving in Congress, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell signed onto another brief also opposing Trump’s disqualification.