Primary Presidential Elections Update

 As an update to the current events, the current state of the republican nomination process, as of 01/05/2024.  There are still many legal proceedings being pushed against the current republican front runner, Donald Trump.  Very little has changed since my last blog post in regards to former president Trump's legal debacles, with the only change being that his legal team has officially petitioned the Supreme court to review the decisions in Colorado and Maine where they states took him off of the presidential ballots due to his alleged involvement in the January 6th "insurrection".  We are currently awaiting the decision of the Supreme Court and this request.  If they take up the case, it will make a significant impact in regards to the powers that states hold over the presidential electoral ballot.  

I personally believe that the Supreme Court has an obligation to take up the case in order to resolve the issue so that should future situations like this occur again, there will be a precedent for it to draw from.  Either way, it can't be a very comfortable case for the Supreme Court to take, since we are in relatively uncharted territory.  It is likely that whatever happens, anger will be expressed by one side or the other of the political spectrum, regardless of what the ruling turns out to be.  If the Supreme Court refuses to take it on, it can potentially set a precedent for states to bar political opponents from the ballet.  An example would be that the state of Idaho could potentially bar democratic nominees from the ballot over alleged accusations.  This is why that it is fundamental for the Supreme Court to rule on this issue.  

Other matters relating to the current presidential contest, I previously expressed support for Nikki Hailey, but since her ignorant comments about the origins of the Civil War,  I no longer support her in the least.  As of now, I don't know who I'm rooting for, but any politician who cannot answer a basic United States history question, then you have no business occupying an office in government, let alone the most powerful executive office of the entire United States government.  I was extremely disappointed at Nikki Hailey's obvious ignorance concerning such important political history.  As far as the other candidates go I still do not support any of the others - especially Ramaswami and DeSantis.  In short, this year we don't really have good presidential options on either the republican or democratic side, making it hard to make any decision at all.  I guess the only solution is to wait and see.