Shortly after Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled to take Trump off the ballot in the 2024 election, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote a statement condemning the court’s decisions.
The Independent presidential candidate wrote, “Every American should be troubled by the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove President Trump from the ballot.”
He continued, “The court has deprived him of a consequential right without having been convicted of a crime.”
Kennedy continued to write, “Colorado Supreme Court ruling made America look like a Banana Republic. Why doesn’t every American understand that If they can do this to a former US President, EVERYONE is vulnerable to punishment for crimes with which they have never been convicted. Democracy would be a total shambles.”
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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.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) December 20, 2023
Colorado Supreme Court ruling makes America look like a Banana Republic. Why doesn’t every American understand that If they can do this to a former US President, EVERYONE is vulnerable to punishment for crimes with which they have never been convicted. Democracy would be a total…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) December 21, 2023
Here’s what Fox News shared:
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 Donald Trump from the ballot because of his involvement in the attack on the Capitol in January 2021.
“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, Kennedy 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,” he 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 so-called banana republics and authoritarian countries, voters can only choose from a slate of officially approved candidates. It’s starting to look like that here too.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) December 21, 2023
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