He. Tried. To. Kill. You.

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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    1911 months ago

    So Republicans are going to just gonna act like the 3rd section of the 14th amendment doesn’t exist? And they think this is a winning strategy?

    Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office

    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. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

    • @CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
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      511 months ago

      Yes they will. And based on the past decade I find it really hard to predict what strategies will be winning strategies

    • @aesthelete@lemmy.world
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      311 months ago

      given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof

      Saying “We love you” on national TV about seditionists doesn’t count as aid or comfort?

    • Schadrach
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      311 months ago

      Gotta convict him first, unfortunately. You aren’t disqualified merely for being accused of doing something, no matter how awful.

      • @hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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        211 months ago

        Which is, honestly, the way it should be.

        If it were just on accusation, or a charge, I have zero difficulty imagining a scenario where a Trump administration DoJ forms cases, no matter how flimsy, against any and every opponent of his, just to get a charge on them to get them DQed from elections up and down the ticket, all across the country, from president all the way down to school board treasurer.