‘If you are allowed to prevent voters from voting for your political opponent, if people can be punished for crimes they've never even been charged with, then both our electoral system and our justice system are corrupt and meaningless, and our democracy itself is fake,’ Carlson said.
'I don’t think that’s the right way to do it,' the Florida governor said, but 'I don't believe in fighting with one hand tied behind your back. Whatever the rules are applied to us, we're going to fight back and play the rules the other way.'
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted efforts to strip voters of the option to choose the former president, calling moves to do so a 'political distraction' even though he says Trump allegedly poses a 'threat to our liberties and even to our democracy.'
'Not only has Mr. Trump not been convicted of insurrection either by a jury of his peers or from the bench by a judge; he hasn’t even been charged with it,' The Washington Post editorial board said.
As long as President Trump appeals the decision to the Supreme Court, the appeals court stays their own ruling – essentially indefinitely. In other words, psychological lawfare stuff – intended for media consumption.