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'Picked a bad candidate': Conservative pops MAGA's bubble about Trump (www.rawstory.com)

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[-] dudinax@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

He's not even legally allowed to hold office.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

He is able to be elected president again, as (for better or worse) being a convicted felon is not one of the disqualifying criteria for that office.

Several US states invoked the 14th Amendment as grounds to disqualify him, but the Republican-controlled Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that only the US Congress has the authority to make that determination. Which, divided as Congress is right now, could never happen.

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

It's an incorrect ruling. States have always been the judges of legal qualification for office.

Congress has it's own method to disqualify someone: impeachment.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I agree, but unfortunately the Supreme Court's word is (literally) law. There is no avenue to contest that short of passing another amendment with more teeth than the 14th, or waiting for a less-biased court to re-evaluate the ruling.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

He is. You can be a convicted felon and still hold office.

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You can't lead an insurrection after taking an oath of office and still hold office.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Seems there is a gap there

[-] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

One of those loopholes born of the founding fathers just never expecting us to be that stupid. A constitutional "this is why we have dumb warnings on the box" moment if you will.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

Did they actually have a good one? Since 2015 or so they've just pivoted to pure crazies and people sticking their tongues up crazy's arseholes.

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Surprisingly cogent argument from a conservative publication.

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