{"id":15682,"date":"2024-02-08T14:48:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trump-scotus-defense-does-not-deny-insurrection-insists-on-presidential-exemption\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T14:48:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T19:48:20","slug":"trump-scotus-defense-does-not-deny-insurrection-insists-on-presidential-exemption","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ar\/press\/trump-scotus-defense-does-not-deny-insurrection-insists-on-presidential-exemption\/","title":{"rendered":"\u062f\u0641\u0627\u0639 \u062a\u0631\u0627\u0645\u0628 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062d\u0643\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0644\u064a\u0627 \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u0646\u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0645\u0631\u062f \u0648\u064a\u0635\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0639\u0641\u0627\u0621 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0626\u0627\u0633\u064a"},"template":"","class_list":["post-15682","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"In our nation no one is above the law. Not even former presidents. It is telling that Donald Trump\u2019s lawyer in the Supreme Court today made no effort to assert that his client had not fomented an insurrection. He did not refute that Donald Trump on January 6 directed heavily-armed militants to go the Capitol to \u201cfight like hell\u201d to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election as part of his attempt to deny the will of the people and steal the election. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7855}"],"related_issues":[149,169,2066,2082],"related_work":[185],"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in <em>\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0645\u0628 \u0636\u062f \u0623\u0646\u062f\u0631\u0633\u0648\u0646<\/em>, the former president\u2019s challenge to a decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that ruled him ineligible to appear on the state\u2019s presidential ballot. Common Cause filed an amicus brief in the case and released the following statement after the argument concluded.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Statement of Kathay Feng, Common Cause\u00a0Vice President of Programs<\/strong><\/p>\r\nIn our nation no one is above the law. Not even former presidents. It is telling that Donald Trump\u2019s lawyer in the Supreme Court today made no effort to assert that his client had not fomented an insurrection. He did not refute that Donald Trump on January 6 directed heavily-armed militants to go the Capitol to \u201cfight like hell\u201d to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election as part of his attempt to deny the will of the people and steal the election.\r\n\r\nSection 3 of the 14<sup>\u0630<\/sup> Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is clear. If a president breaks their oath to support the Constitution by fomenting insurrection, that person cannot hold office. But Trump\u2019s lawyer argued to the Justices that \u201c<em>even if a candidate were an admitted insurrectionist<\/em>\u201d, that the 14<sup>\u0630<\/sup> Amendment still allows that candidate to run for, and even win, office. This defies the U.S. Constitution.\r\n\r\nTrump\u2019s lawyer twisted and turned to create what Justice Sotomayor speculated was a \u201cgerrymandered rule\u201d \u201cdesigned to benefit only your client\u201d, and thus that the 14<sup>\u0630<\/sup> Amendment ban on insurrectionists should not apply to the president.\r\n\r\nIf the president is allowed to stage an insurrection in order to overturn an election that he lost, without consequence, we run the risk of descending into a future of dictators seizing power through coups. We cannot allow a candidate who broke his Constitutional oath by refusing to support a peaceful transfer of power, and instead fomenting an attack on the Capitol and stoking violence against election administrators and judicial officials, to defy the people\u2019s will and our rule of law. We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will recognize this ongoing threat as it weighs the pivotal case.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo read the Common Cause amicus brief in the case, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/23\/23-719\/299190\/20240130132143061_23-719%20Trump%20v%20Anderson%20Brief%20for%20Amicus%20Curiae%20Common%20Cause%20in%20Support%20of%20Respondents.pdf\">\u0627\u0646\u0642\u0631 \u0647\u0646\u0627<\/a>."}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump SCOTUS Defense Does not Deny Insurrection, Insists on Presidential Exemption - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ar\/press-releases\/trump-scotus-defense-does-not-deny-insurrection-insists-on-presidential-exemption\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ar_AR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump SCOTUS Defense Does not Deny Insurrection, Insists on Presidential Exemption\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ar\/\u064a\u0636\u0639\u0637\/trump-scotus-defense-does-not-deny-insurrection-insists-on-presidential-exemption\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trump-scotus-defense-does-not-deny-insurrection-insists-on-presidential-exemption\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trump-scotus-defense-does-not-deny-insurrection-insists-on-presidential-exemption\/\",\"name\":\"Trump SCOTUS Defense Does not Deny Insurrection, Insists on Presidential Exemption - 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