Trump-Biden Debates set

[GMDino]

Well...

https://meidasnews.com/news/ohio-moving-to-exclude-biden-from-ballot

Quote:Ohio Moving to Exclude Biden from Ballot
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• Ron Filipkowski
• May 22, 2024
  

In 2010, the Ohio legislature passed a law creating an arbitrary deadline that candidates for each political party must be nominated 90 days before the election to get on the ballot. That provision has never been enforced to keep a candidate off the ballot - until now.
Both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions took place after the 90 day Ohio deadline in 2012 and 2020. Both times the legislature passed a bill to extend the deadline so there were no issues. However, 2024 is the first time that only one party has their nominating convention after the deadline, and it just happens to be the Democrats which will nominate Biden on August 22, two weeks after Ohio's arbitrary deadline.


The Republican supermajority was asked again, just like in 2012 and 2020, to extend the deadline so there will not be an issue. They have refused to do so. Now, Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose has just send a letter to the Chair of the Ohio Democratic Party stating that he does not believe the legislature is going to grant an extension so the DNC is going to be forced to either change the date of their nominating convention to satisfy Ohio Republicans, or take them to court. 


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Democrats should win if challenged in court, but that is also risky given the politicization of the federal courts - especially the US Supreme Court. A challenge would be made based on the fact that his is an arbitrary deadline that violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Ironically, Democrats could be relying on the Supreme Court's decision in the Colorado case, where Trump was excluded for J6, to overturn Ohio's law denying Biden's place on the ballot. 

The Biden Campaign and the DNC has been largely silent on this issue, apparently attempting to resolve this behind the scenes through negotiations. However, LaRose's letter makes it clear that the time for a settlement to this appears to be at an end with Ohio Republicans prepared to force Democrats to take them to court.


More attempts by Republicans to tamper with our elections on their march towards autocracy.