What the people who now want us to ignore the Fourteenth Amendment are arguing is that certain aspects of the Constitution ought to be nullified merely by their unpopularity—not even necessarily among a majority of voters but among a subset of extra-special voters. This is not a standard applied to any other aspect of the American Constitution in any other circumstance. It is an entirely novel standard invented for the benefit of Donald Trump. In effect, they are arguing for a set of unwritten Trump Rules that would exempt the former president from broadly applicable standards.
Saying the 14th Amendment doesn’t apply to Trump is textbook Special Pleading.
He’s guilty of even more… and should be hanging from the gallows.
Surely the law and order party will stick to the letter of the law. Surely.
With “more than 25 women who have accused Trump of sexual assault or misconduct (which he has denied), and the countless more who have endured public vitriol and threats to their life after being targeted by him, have all been punished either for challenging him or for denying him what he fundamentally believed was his due” law and order is the least of their concerns.
It’s a really good article and everyone should read it in full.
What if Bush got to just decide after the votes were tallied if he wanted the electoral college to apply for that election cycle or not? The rules agreed to before an election are by definition democratic. It would be undemocratic to day “well we have always played by the rules but this time they don’t favor me so let’s just not use that rule this time?”
It’s weird you pick Bush when that election also wasn’t a democratic process. The US Supreme Court decided who would be the president - as it is trying to do again.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore#:~:text=The Court ruled 5–4,as provided in 3 U.S.C.
I just picked a name, but yes someone like Kerry or Clinton would make more sense as they literally would have won their elections if they could have just flipped a switch to turn the EC off.
We really need to stop being afraid of how his supporters might react and just deal with it when it happens.
They want to start a civil war? Ok let’s see how well their rip-off semi-auto tacticool AR-15s do against the US National Guard and a few predator drones.If Trump is DQ’d Biden loses the general. It’s thats simple, and the Democrats know this. Trump needs to win the primary for Biden to be viable at all. Shockingly they learned little from 2016.
Regardless of your self serving attitude towards the law, just like the Trumpers, you’re just full of it, the whole Republican bench is trash. MAGA wants Trump and no one else.
How is that self serving? I want him gone, its the elected Democrats who dont. Don’t assume things you didn’t read on my comment. Stop distracting and acknowledg this is a purposeful move by Democrat leadership. They don’t want him DQd and have said so publicly.
