Trump still 'an adjudicated insurrectionist' after 'incoherent' SCOTUS opinion: George Conway

Longtime conservative lawyer George Conway on Monday did not mince words regarding his thoughts on the US Supreme Court's unanimous ruling to strike down the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that barred Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot based on the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause.

Speaking with CNN's Kaitlan Collins, the anti-Trump attorney has adamantly stressed that the former president should not be allowed to serve another term due to his involvement in the January 6 attack on the US capitol.

"George, you initially said that you thought the Supreme Court would have a difficult time," Collins said. "Your quote that I looked at today was, 'Avoiding the consequence of the plain language of the 14th amendment.' It was obviously a 9-0 call today. So I wonder what you made of this ruling. And if you feel differently now."

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Conway replied, "No, I don't think differently. 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. 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 did not engage in an insurrection."

He continued, "And the latter, I think, is the most important takeaway from this. Notwithstanding Donald Trump declaring victory, he remains an adjudicated insurrectionist after this opinion because the Supreme Court did not, in any way, under cut, or contradict or suggest in any way there was any infirmity in the factual findings made by the lower courts."

Collins asked, "Why do you think that was?"

Conway said, "Because he's unquestionably an insurrectionist. I mean, it would have been absurd for the court to try to redefine what it means to engage in an insurrection and what an insurrection is to try to get Donald Trump off the hook. And that's what the court was terrified about. They didn't want to go there."

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"And you can see sort of the terror in the opinions, in the concurring opinions," he emphasized. "I mean, Justice [Amy Comey] Barrett — her opinion just exuded fear of the political consequences of the decision. And frankly, the concurring opinion, I know they're perceived as having attacked the majority opinion for going too far. But the problem was, it wasn't overreach by the majority, it was underreach by all nine justices. And the concurring opinion, frankly, its criticisms of the majority opinion actually end up undermining the concurrence's own opinion as to the result in the case, which was to affirm."

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