Dennis Prager Show - SCOTUS Rules In Favor Of Trump To Stay On Colorado Ballot
Aired: 2024-03-05
Duration: 04:31


=== Threat to Democracy (04:31) ===

[00:00:00]  A lot of traveling in the next few months, and welcome to the show.
[00:00:04]  The Supreme Court, this is the headline in the Wall Street Journal, Supreme Court restores Donald Trump's ballot eligibility.
[00:00:14]  Justices reversed Colorado's ruling that disqualified Trump for a role in capital attack.
[00:00:20]  And guess what?
[00:00:23]  The ruling.
[00:00:26]  Does this article note that it's 9-0?
[00:00:31]  Alan, where in the article would it say that?
[00:00:34]  That's very strange.
[00:00:35]  I mean, that's pretty relevant.
[00:00:39]  Well, 9 is not coming up.
[00:00:42]  This is a very important...
[00:00:44]  I want to make sure that I have that right.
[00:00:47]  Let's see if the word 9 comes up.
[00:00:49]  No.
[00:00:51]  Why would the article not note that?
[00:00:53]  The Supreme Court ruled today that states lack the power to reject presidential candidates on the grounds they engaged in rebellion or insurrection against the United States, a decision that restored former President Donald Trump's name to Colorado's ballot and ended similar challenges to his candidacy elsewhere.
[00:01:12]  The unsigned opinion effectively puts to rest a series of state-level claims that Trump isn't eligible to be president a second time under a long, dormant constitutional provision barring former officials who engage dormant constitutional provision barring former officials who engage in insurrection or rebellion.
[00:01:33]  And anyway, this is a real smack at these judges in Colorado and elsewhere that have said this.
[00:01:46]  I have to contain myself because...
[00:01:49]  The amount of damage the left is doing to this remarkable country is endless.
[00:01:56]  And one of them is the bastardization of language.
[00:02:01]  I use the term rape, the rape of language.
[00:02:03]  People get angry because rape they think is only a sexual act.
[00:02:06]  Look it up in the dictionary.
[00:02:09]  People speak frequently of forests being raped.
[00:02:13]  It is as strong a term as you can use for the violation of something.
[00:02:18]  In the case of rape, it's the violation of usually a woman, sometimes a man.
[00:02:24]  And in the case of language, it is the violation of language, and all that is sacred in the idea that when they speak about the right-wing conservatives being anti-democracy, oh, it's a threat to democracy.
[00:02:37]  Everything is a threat to democracy if you differ with the left.
[00:02:41]  You want a threat to democracy?
[00:02:44]  Despicable judges, Stalin-like judges, ruling that a candidate can't be a candidate because they don't like the guy.
[00:02:51]  That's a threat to democracy.
[00:02:56]  Whew!
[00:02:57]  Alright.
[00:02:58]  I feel a little better.
[00:03:00]  But only a little.
[00:03:02]  Because the issue isn't my emotions, the issue is my country.
[00:03:10]  These judges, I mean, the...
[00:03:13]  The arrogance of the whole thing.
[00:03:17]  We don't like Trump so he can't run.
[00:03:20]  Of course they hide it behind insurrection.
[00:03:23]  Every fascist and every communist regime, the judges do the same thing.
[00:03:28]  They always make up some sort of offense that the person they want to squash has engaged in.
[00:03:38]  They never say, we're just squashing someone because we don't want him or like him.
[00:03:43]  Of course not.
[00:03:45]  And here's the thing.
[00:03:47]  These judges in Colorado, the judge in Illinois, wherever else this has happened, they will sleep fine tonight.
[00:03:55]  In their view, the Supreme Court was just wimpy.
[00:04:02]  That's it.
[00:04:03]  They had the courage to threaten democracy.
[00:04:08]  Threat to democracy.
[00:04:11]  It's like misinformation.
[00:04:13]  If you don't hear it from the government, it isn't true.
[00:04:19]  That vile comment made by the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, who is now teaching at Harvard.
[00:04:30]  So appropriately.