Is Keeping Trump Off the Ballot Such a Bright Idea?

There’s a non-profit outfit in Wellesley, MA called Free Speech For People, which has just started a project which could turn out to be the biggest and most serious pain in the ass ever suffered by Donald Trump, far more serious than what he’s currently facing in New York or D.C. or might also be facing in Georgia as well.

This group got started back in 2010 as a response to the Citizens United case which basically opened the floodgates for unlimited amounts of corporate monies to flow into the electoral process without any supervision at all.

Their efforts have lately taken on more urgency in response to the attempts by the so-called forces of democracy to suppress voting both at the federal and state levels, in particular taking legal action to prevent voter intimidation against minority voters in states like Texas and Arizona, where the balance of political power is obviously very much a function of the minority vote.

But where this group may have a big impact on the degree to which Donald Trump feels a sharp pain in his rear end is the letter they send to election officials in nine states, including two of the mot critical ‘battleground’ states, Pennsylvania and Michigan, demanding that Trump’s name be removed from the 2024 ballot because he has violated the 14th Amendment by helping to organize and…