Red Mosquito

elliseamos wrote:

NYT wrote:Two law professors active in the Federalist Society wrote that the original meaning of the 14th Amendment makes Donald Trump ineligible to hold government office.

The clause states that "no person shall be a senator or representative in Congress, or elector of president and vice president, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

"Trump is disqualified from holding any public office, including the office of the president, under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment."

elliseamos wrote:Will anybody tell him?

blueviper wrote:

elliseamos wrote:Will anybody tell him?

all them originalists on the Supreme Court better hold to it if it ever gets to them.

B wrote:

blueviper wrote:

elliseamos wrote:Will anybody tell him?

all them originalists on the Supreme Court better hold to it if it ever gets to them.

Heh.

B wrote:When it would benefit the Republicans, this court has and will continue to interpret the 14th Amendment based upon what they think the original drafters thought.

Bi_3 wrote:

B wrote:When it would benefit the Republicans, this court has and will continue to interpret the 14th Amendment based upon what they think the original drafters thought.

Like in Ashcroft and Obergefell?

elliseamos wrote:More charismatic than RFK & DeSantis seems like a low bar.

elliseamos wrote:It is refreshing.

Like when Paul Ryan would go full wonk on people with his big blue eyes.

tommy wrote:People don't want nuance, they want pro-wrestling