09/28/2023
So the short version is this guy from Texas has filed in WV and other states to have the President removed from the ballot over J6. My 1st thought was this guy is a CNN watcher (watching fiction repeating as fact). my 2nd thought was he must not be firing on all cylinders. Ultimately I think he didn't make the team, still has his participant trophy and is desperate for attention. There are meds that can help with this condition...dumbass
Lawsuit over Trumps ballot access in West Virginia draws fire, fire and more fire.
September 27, 2023
Republican political figures in West Virginia are distressed over a federal lawsuit filed by a longshot presidential candidate aiming to keep former President Donald Trump off ballots on constitutional grounds that insurrectionist activity disqualifies him.
Republican response to the lawsuit resulted in a press release frenzy. Several issued statements blasting the lawsuit as an effort to deprive Trumps 2024 presidential ballot access in West Virginia, where he remains very popular.
The lawsuit was filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, along with parallel efforts in other states. The man who filed it, John Anthony Castro, is a write-in Republican presidential candidate from Texas.
The West Virginia Republican Party has filed to intervene in the case. Castro is serving as his own attorney and has filed for a temporary restraining order and an expedited preliminary injunction.
“The entire nation knows that Defendant Donald John Trump provided aid and comfort to the January 6th Insurrection,”
Castro wrote in one of the filings.
“The only remaining question is whether the federal judiciary has the courage to do the right thing. All evil needs in order to prevail is for good men and women to do nothing.”
The concept in the lawsuit is that Article 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies federal officeholders who “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” The amendment was passed in 1868 as a Civil War response
Castro has filed suit in states including New Hampshire, Florida, Utah, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
The version in West Virginia names Trump as a defendant, along with Secretary of State Mac Warner in his official capacity as West Virginia’s chief elections official.
Warner issued a statement this afternoon objecting to the grounds of the lawsuit.
"Every eligible candidate, including Donald Trump, has the constitutional right to have their name on West Virginia’s Primary Election ballot unless legally disqualified,”
"Seeking to remove voters and opportunity to nominate a candidate to be the next President of the United States is not to be taken lightly. I will follow and enforce the Constitution.”
The lawsuit includes several paragraphs meant to demonstrate Trump’s connection with insurrection activity following the 2020 presidential election.
Castro is a tax consultant who has run for office several times unsuccessfully. He ran as a Democrat in 2004 for a county court of commissioners position in Texas, finishing fifth of five. He ran as a Republican in 2020 for U.S. Senate from Texas, finishing fourth of four. In 2021, he ran as a Republican in a special election for House of Representatives, coming nowhere close to winning.
Castro was involved in a controversy as a Georgetown law student and later as an employer where Georgetown University banned him over
“deliberate misrepresentations on his resume.”
The allegation was that he claimed to have graduated from West Point when he actually had dropped out.
He says he wants to be on the ballot in West Virginia and other states and claims Trump is inappropriately drawing away potential votes.
West Virginia Republicans were very upset about his court filing against Trump.
Elgine McArdle
“This legal challenge is the latest assault on President Trump, his campaign, and his supporters."
“Voters in West Virginia and across the country deserve the opportunity to vote for their choice for president, whether the establishment likes it or not. What we’re seeing take place is shameful and wrong — but we will proudly enter into this litigation to deliver a victory for President Trump, our voters, and the rule of law.”
Alex Mooney
Congressman blamed the lawsuit on Democrats even though Castro has run several times as a Republican.
“Democrats will do anything to get ahead, even change election rules,” “ will be on West Virginians’ ballots in 2024 because he’s the only one who will put our country on the right path. Democrats can keep cheating, we will hold them accountable and remind them that rules apply to liberals even though they ignore them.”
State Treasurer Riley Moore, a Republican also jumped in.
“The attempt by out-of-state liberals to remove President Trump from the ballot in West Virginia is not only pathetic, it is an insult to hard-working West Virginians. We have the right to decide who we will support next November. And it’s obvious we are going to once again support President Trump in overwhelming numbers.
Congresswoman Carol Miller
“obvious obstruction of justice by Democrats across the United States.
They are terrified of having a candidate who will represent the American people, not Washington politicians. This latest attempt to strip West Virginians of their right to vote for who they want for president is shameful and I will not stand for it."
Chris Miller
“I’m sure you’ve seen by now this lawsuit that was filed in West Virginia by this crazy group of liberal people. They are literally trying to kick Donald Trump off of the ballot. And they’re doing this all around the country.
“I’m pretty confident that it’s not going to work in West Virginia. The question is, does it work anywhere else around the country?”
Ryan Weld
Republican senator
questioned the credibility of the man who filed the lawsuit.
“Castro is nothing but a fraud who believes that a West Virginia judge wouldn’t be smart enough to see through his attention-seeking scam."
Mike Stuart
candidate for Attorney General
“anti-American and anti-democratic.”
If successful, these terrible efforts will further divide the nation and create irreparable damage to the country,
This is clear and transparent attempt to steal the 2024 election because they cannot beat him. If they want to defeat President Trump and his America First agenda, they should beat him at the ballot box not by abusive actions in the courts.”
J.B. McCuskey
Attorney General candidate,
"West Virginia is Trump country and supports President Trump in his bid to return to the White House.
to prevent him from appearing on the ballot, the Left has filed a lawsuit in West Virginia so you cannot vote for him.