RFK Jr. speaks up on Colorado. Fox News headlines:
RFK Jr. issues stark warning after Colorado court blocks Trump from ballot: ‘Country will become ungovernable’ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stresses Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump deprives voters of a ‘fair election’
Fox reports:
“ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is running as an independent for president in 2024, issued a warning after Colorado’s Supreme Court blocked former President Trump from the ballot over Jan. 6.
‘If Trump is kept out of office through judicial fiat rather than being defeated in a fair election, his supporters will never accept the result. This country will become ungovernable,’ Kennedy, who initially launched a Democratic primary challenge to President Biden in April before switching to an independent 2024 bid in October, wrote on X.
‘It’s time to trust the voters. It is up to the people to decide who the best candidate is. Not the courts. The people. That’s Democracy 101,’ Kennedy said. ‘When any candidate is deprived of his right to run, the American people are deprived of their right to choose.’
Calling for a swift reversal, RFK Jr. said the 4-3 Colorado decision deeming Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause, ‘contributes to the perception that the elites are picking the President by manipulating the legal system, and through other interventions.’
‘Every American should be troubled by the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove President Trump from the ballot,’ Kennedy wrote on X. ‘The court has deprived him of a consequential right without having been convicted of a crime. This was done without an evidentiary hearing in which he is given the basic right of confronting his accusers.’
In an earlier thread, Kennedy argued the U.S. would condemn foreign governments if they acted the way the Colorado Supreme Courthas.
‘When a court in another country disqualifies an opposition candidate from running, we say, ‘That’s not a real democracy.’ Now it’s happening here,’ Kennedy said. ‘I’m not a Trump supporter (if I were, I wouldn’t be running against him!) But I want to beat him in a fair election, not because he was kicked off the ballot. Let the voters choose, not the courts!’”
Increasingly it seems the critics of the Colorado decision are thoroughly bipartisan.
