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Side tangent but it's actually kind of an issue picking who is allowed to remove major party candidates from ballots.
538 mentioned some state where the parties pick a candidate and whatever they say goes, so it's difficult to sue Trump off the ballot...but legitimately, what happens if a party nominates a 23 year old who is not constitutionally eligible to be president? What if the 23 year old wins?
So it makes sense to have since administrative structure where applications are received and evaluated, but shouldn't those administrators be under the purview of an elected official? And won't that elected official be biased for their own party? Is relying on next-election consequences the only way to reign in those elected officials?
What if Trump wins and run for a third term? If the constitution isn't enforced anyway, why would the 2 term limit matter?
oh my god, shut the fuck up, he engaged in supporting an insurrection, and an existing law bars those that support insurrection from acting as an officer of government.
Full fucking stop. It’s not like the people randomly decided these things, we have had multiple public hearings that confirmed Donald Trump fomented the insurrection. We have judges that have decided that he most certainly did support an insurrection.
What more do you want? Do you want a signed fucking confession before we can literally uphold existing law that has already been used to safeguard the government from those that tried to overthrow it?
Jesus fucking Christ, the way you’re talking about it you’d think this is some new bullshit law slipped in to help stop Trump when that’s not the case at all. Innocent until proven guilty and he has been proven to have supported said insurrection by a judge in a court of law.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-lit-that-fire-of-capitol-insurrection-jan-6-committee-report-says
https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-releases/crew-statement-on-court-finding-trump-engaged-in-insurrection/
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The goddamn constitution gets to pick and it decided on that responsibility in 18 goddamn 66.
https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/14th-amendment.htm
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/
It’s in the goddamn constitution and the decision was made by the highest state courts, the lawsuit was brought by republicans.