It won’t end the cancer, but it will certainly put it out of the limelight for awhile. I just have to wonder what happens next if he doesn’t win.
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The criminal insurrection statute is the only one currently on the books that provides for disqualification as a punishment for conviction. trump isn’t charged with it, so it’s not relevant to him appearing on the ballot except to show that Congress does actually know how to exercise its authority under the disqualification clause.
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Well if he loses he will claim fraud, stolen election, etc. He is a broken record.
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Immediately there will be a ton of ketchup splashed on a wall. MAGATS will scream and threaten then notice that there are Local, State and Federal authorities that won’t put up with any bullshit.
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Preferably after he’s been convicted in the J6 case.
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Correct, but they are also about presidential qualification. I know that judicial interpretation of the 14th Amendment is rather unique and has led to its inconsistent application vis-a-vis other parts of the Constitution. Thank racist judges for that.
But that doesn’t change the fact that declining to hear the case will be entirely a choice by the Court. It doesn’t have to. That it can and probably will when it probably would not in similar circumstances makes the very existence of the ability to make that choice inherently suspect.
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He strokes out before reporting to prison.
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Listen up, Tex: if the Supremes deny JabbaSaurus’ candidacy in all states/territories, we’ll all kiss your ass!
As the old song goes, only the good die young. I suspect even Satan doesn’t want this guy - too much competition.
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Or, what if he then moves west and converts the state of Texas to his own theocracy?
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If Trump’s legal problems help Biden defeat him, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has said, next year “is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets .”
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Just to be clear, my non-justiciability argument results in trump staying on the ballot everywhere.
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And that’s more than likely the case. The Secret Service will be kept quite busy. It might be nice to have actual non-MAGAts in the corps, as well as in the in FBI, but that’s too much to ask.
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Bless your little heart.
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They tossed every last one of his 2020 election cases, with dissents noted only in one or two of the inconsequential pre-November cases. It is plain as day that they’re not going to bail trump out on anything other than Colorado’s ballot overreach, and even that will be unanimous. None of these are close questions. And after they’re all resolved, you will no doubt continue to persist in this broken-brained dystopian thinking.
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I give absolutely no weight to the arguments that SCOTUS can’t do this, or must do that.
Have you SEEN how shamelessly these justices manufacture absurd rationalizations to support whatever predetermined conclusions they want to reach?
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Does it make a difference that Griffin was running for a State versus Trump running for a Federal office?
I would think it would. That is States can have their own rules for who can run for a State office but in regard to who can run for a Federal office, that is a federal question.
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It might have made things clearer if the Secret Service had followed Donald’s wishes and drove him to the Capitol and gave him a bullhorn.
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This is one of those situations where someone is freaking out and screaming crazy shit until someone smacks them. The response to being smacked should be
“thanks, I needed that!”. But you don’t usually get that from the ones who have some agenda, are gaslighting or are just incurable Eyores who need therapy.
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Nope. 14(3) prohibits insurrectionists from holding a variety of positions, including any “executive or judicial officer of any State.” Cuoy Griffin’s county commissioner seat is just a political subdivision of the state.
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