The US Supreme Court has swatted away the State of Colorado’s attempt to strip Donald Trump from the presidential ballot. Despite fevered efforts to pin the 6th January 2021 storming of the Capitol on the former President, the Supreme Court has rejected the claim that Trump can be excluded as an “insurrectionist” under section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The Colorado Supreme Court’s attempts to suppress the likely opposition candidate have been roundly rejected…
In the view of the Supreme Court, “States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency”. The judges’ ruling was unanimous…
Shadow national security minister Alicia Kearns told Times Radio she would have put a precondition on a China trip if she were PM:
“I would have put a precondition that I was not going to go if I was prime minister, unless Jimmy Lai was coming home with me. I would also put a precondition in the six months leading up to the visit that I wanted a reduction in hostile acts against our country. But that’s not what we saw. And actually, in contrast, what we saw was clearly the Chinese Communist Party did put a precondition, which was that the new embassy in London had to be signed off. So why is it okay for China to set preconditions and to make very clear red lines about what they require for a visit, but we go without having put any ourselves?”