Ballots and stopping Trump

 Hi All,

You no longer have to be a conspiracy theorist on this one. No I'm not referring to the idea that the US goverment has aliens or alien space craft at area 51. I am referring to the idea that there is a conspiracy against former President Trump. It isn't a theory or something shadowy. It is being fully cheered on by a mixture of democrats, mainstream media and political appointees to do everything they can to stop Trump from being re-elected. Everything from left leaning states (even if Trump was 100% clean, they'd probably find a car parking ticket and use that to throw him in goal for 1,000 years) to Federal inditments have been thrown at Trump, with collective fines and gaol terms of hundreds of years each. Everthing but the kitchen sink and that may follow soon. The latest being the attempts by Colarado and other left leaning states to not put Trump of the ballot for the Primaries, let alone the 'general elections*'. 

What is interesting is what the response of the Supreme Court will be. You see when the Supreme Court overturned Roe Vs Wade, it did so on the basis it was up to the indivdual states to decide what to do with abortion, thus it was not a Federal issue. Likewise elections in America are the perview of the States and not the Federal government- even Federal offices themselves. Given the Supreme Court mostly follows the common law idea of Precedent, it will be interesting to see if they will be willing to back Trump on this one and overturn the long standing Precedent that elections are a state matter. 

As for not having a major candidate on the ballot across all states, this has happened before. But that was in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected. He wasn't on ballot in Southern States and still won the election... which started succession and civil war.

[*Primaries being the way the parties elect their candidates for office in America, not just President, you basically registed as eith Republican, Democrat or Independent  and then get to vote to choose  the candidate for the actual office, then there is a seperate election for that office itself, although there varients, but this is it in simplist form,, by contrast in the UK it is party members who vote for Parliamentary candidates, not conservatives voters and the Labour party has the bloc votes of Unions as well as individual party members].