Kudos to Dean Phillips, who otherwise will serve as a footnote to the 2024 election cycle. The House Democrat from Minnesota kicked off a quixotic primary challenge to incumbent (and largely recumbent) Joe Biden earlier this autumn, hoping to wrest the party’s nomination in order to assure victory over Donald Trump.
But nearly alone among his Capitol Hill colleagues, Phillips wants to defeat Trump at the ballot box rather than the bar. Politico reported late yesterday on the rather novel development yesterday of having a Democrat blasting the Colorado state supreme court for its judicial bill of attainder, and demanding “immediate” action by the Supreme Court to restore order:
Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips on Wednesday criticized the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s ballot over his…