Nothing says “reasoned, valid legal analysis” like Colorado’s Secretary of State coming on MSNBC to congratulate Maine for throwing former President Donald Trump off the ballot. Additionally, she placed undue public pressure on the United States Supreme Court by
Watch as the partisan secretary of state partisanly urges the Supreme Court to keep Trump off the ballot by upholding Colorado’s ruling:
CHARLES COLEMAN, JR.: Are you looking forward, in a way, to the Supreme Court getting involved?
JENA GRISWOLD: I’m looking forward to certainty. My job as Secretary of State is to make sure that Coloradans have great elections. Republicans, Democrats, unaffiliateds alike. And I have to certify who will be on the ballot next week Friday for the presidential primary. So we are really urging the courts to act quickly, and whether that means they decide not to review or they do review the case, well, that's up to them. But I also agree with Secretary Bellows in Maine and the Colorado Supreme Court. They’ve gotten it right. Donald Trump engaged in an insurrection, and because of that he should be disqualified by the Constitution from appearing on any ballot or serving as President again.
Colorado’s Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, appeared on MSNBC’s The ReidOut in order to talk about Maine, Colorado, and Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s decision to run in another district. She was there to defend the decision to kick Trump off the ballot and to make her own ruling on insurrection.
Unfortunately, she was also there to preemptively delegitimize the United States Supreme Court ahead of the 2024 Trump docket. With host Charles Coleman’s assent, Griswold made multiple statements asserting that hers (and Colorado’s) was the right rationale and that the court should quickly uphold Colorado's ruling. Interestingly enough, she doesn’t mention the stay of the Colorado ruling pending SCOTUS review.
The parallels are troubling: as in Dobbs, the left and the media are out in front of a SCOTUS ruling. As in Dobbs, there is the potential for violence if the Court rules against the mob. And as in Dobbs, the media are platforming these voices instigating delegitimization and violence.
Towards the end of the segment, Griswold broke down Rep. Lauren Boebert’s decision to switch congressional districts for 2024. Here, again, the person responsible for a state’s vote count is offering partisan takes on elections that she will later certify.
That’s unnerving. At MSNBC, it’s reasoned legal analysis.
