George Conway FUMES at Unanimous Supreme Court Decision Favoring Trump: ‘Shoddy Legal Work All Around’
Conservative attorney George Conway blasted Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which said states may not remove from the ballot the names of presidential candidates.
The decision came after lawyers for Donald Trump appealed a Colorado Supreme Court decision stating that under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment’s prohibition on insurrectionists running for federal office, Trump was ineligible to be on the ballot.
But in a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned that decision. Despite the unanimity, the court’s three liberal justices argued the conservative wing went beyond the scope of the question in front of them.
Conway, who has been an ardent critic of Trump, said on Monday’s edition of The Source that he stands by his earlier argument that the former president should be ineligible. In doing so, he called the concurring opinions issued by the justices “fundamentally incoherent.”
“I think they did have a very difficult time with it because I don’t think any of the three opinions make any sense whatsoever,” he said. “I think these opinions are fundamentally incoherent and they’re fundamentally arbitrary. And I think it just shows the difficulty the court had in trying to select an off-ramp here. I mean, they totally rejected Trump’s principal arguments, which were that the president is somehow not an officer of the United States, and the other argument, which was that he did not engage in an insurrection.”
Conway noted that the justices did not dispute the Colorado Supreme Court’s finding that Trump engaged in an insurrection when he incited a mob to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Why do you think that was?” asked host Kaitlan Collins.
“Because he’s unquestionably an insurrectionist,” he replied. “It would have been absurd for the court to try to redefine what it means to engage in an insurrection and to engage, and what an insurrection is to try to fit it to get Donald Trump off the hook. And that’s what the court was terrified about. They didn’t want to go there. And you can see that sort of the terror in the opinions, in the concurring opinions.”
He later hit the justices for what he said was questionable legal reasoning.
“I can’t make heads or tails, frankly, out of the concurring opinions any more than I can make heads or tails out of majority opinion,” Conway said. “It is just shoddy legal work all around by all the justices.”
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