It has come to light that Conservative attorney George Conway slammed Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which said states might not remove from the ballot the names of presidential candidates via Mediaite.
The ruling was made in response to an appeal filed by attorneys representing Donald Trump against a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that declared Trump ineligible to run for office because of the 14th Amendment’s Section 3 ban on insurrectionists seeking federal office.
However, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed that decision with a 9-0 vote. Even with the unanimous decision, the three liberal justices on the court contended that the conservative side’s arguments went beyond the parameters of the case at hand.
Conway, a fierce opponent of Trump, stated on Monday’s episode of The Source that he still believes the former president shouldn’t be allowed to run. In doing so, he referred to the justices’ concurring opinions as “fundamentally incoherent.”
“I think they did have a very difficult time with it because I don’t think any of the three opinions make any sense whatsoever,” he said. “I think these opinions are fundamentally incoherent and they’re fundamentally arbitrary. And I think it just shows the difficulty the court had in trying to select an off-ramp here. I mean, they totally rejected Trump’s principal arguments, which were that the president is somehow not an officer of the United States, and the other argument, which was that he did not engage in an insurrection.”
Conway noted that the justices did not dispute the Colorado Supreme Court’s finding that Trump engaged in an insurrection when he incited a mob to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Why do you think that was?” asked host Kaitlan Collins.
“Because he’s unquestionably an insurrectionist,” he replied. “It would have been absurd for the court to try to redefine what it means to engage in an insurrection and to engage, and what an insurrection is to try to fit it to get Donald Trump off the hook. And that’s what the court was terrified about. They didn’t want to go there. And you can see that sort of the terror in the opinions, in the concurring opinions.”
He later hit the justices for what he said was questionable legal reasoning.
“I can’t make heads or tails, frankly, out of the concurring opinions any more than I can make heads or tails out of majority opinion,” Conway said. “It is just shoddy legal work all around by all the justices.
