Will the Supreme Court uphold the plain text of the Constitution, or will threats and bribes induce them into an Orwellian denial of the Fourteenth Amendment’s exclusion of insurrectionist Trump from the ballot?

If Democrats want to defend the Constitution from Trump, here is where they must start; Trump got all the due process he was entitled to when XIV Amendment was ratified in 1868; Beware the perils of hyper-democracy, a key factor in the 1933 destruction of Germany’s Weimar Republic constitution;

Friends of the court brief from 25 historians makes plain that Insurrection Clause was intended to apply to presidents, and therefore to Trump, as officers of US federal government; Ban on insurrectionists in public office was intended to be permanent, with an emphatic view to excluding future offenders; this provision is self-executing and does not require further legislation by Congress or court convictions; the key roles of Reps. Thaddeus Stevens, Jonathan Bingham, and Benjamin Butler;

Confederate ex-President and arch-traitor Jefferson Davis might have sought White House in 1870s, but XIV Amendment barred him and he acknowledged it; Originalists and textualists cannot today deny the force of this clause;

Judge Luttig’s brief represents that rarity, the views of an actual conservative concerned with tradition, precedent, custom, norms, protocols, conventions, and stare decisis — in contrast to MAGA demagogues who proclaim they want to tear up the Constitution;

Reports of long-overdue indictments for Congressmen and Senators implicated in January 6 putsch attempt; these are also the main saboteurs of foreign military aid; Trump hypes US-Mexico border situation as apocalyptic emergency for demagogic purposes, but then demands solutions wait at least a year for his supposed regime;

Biden should ready emergency powers to make sure military aid to Ukraine arrives in time to defeat Russian aggressors; European Union rebuffs sinister bid by Russian satellite Orban of Hungary to deliver Kiev into hands of Kremlin; 50 billion euros now headed for Ukraine;

Realism at last: Biden leads Trump 50-44 overall in latest Quinnipiac poll, with epic 58-36 Dem lead among women voters; Bidenomics created a stunning 353,000 jobs in January; Trump faces cash crunch after spending $55 million on lawyers in 2023; RNC hack Ronna McDaniel’s tenure under heavy attack; GOP state organizations impoverished and/or bitterly factionalized in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota; MAGA personalities are not selling well, so they try to use Taylor Swift as a wedge issue;

Biden State Department joins with British Foreign Office to study diplomatic recognition of Palestinian Authority as sovereign state without reference to Israel; Biden has thus revived two-state solution after decades of frustration; US readies sanctions against leaders of armed fascist settlers in West Bank, perhaps including Smotrich and Ben Gvir of Netanyahu cabinet; Why Dearborn attacks on Biden are tragically misguided; Remembering Bourguiba’s 1965 realistic advice to Nasser that could have prevented 6-day war;

Breaking: Biden orders air strikes on 85 pro-Iranian militia targets in Syria and Iraq to deter repeats of last week’s rocket hit that killed 3 US soldiers at Tower 22 in Jordan.