• jordanlund@lemmy.worldOPM
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    10 months ago

    Found to be an insurrectionist, but not convicted of insurrection and that’s the rub, I don’t think the Supremes are going to be willing to put their thumb on the scale in a criminal case that hasn’t even gone to trial yet.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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      10 months ago

      It doesn’t say you have to be convicted of insurrection, just engage in insurrection, or give aid or comfort to those that did. And a vote of 2/3 from Congress and the Senate would be required to over-ride that (which will never happen) to remove that disqualification.

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        10 months ago

        The 14th was written in a simpler time, when it was easy to see who the Confederates were.

        Trump is making the argument that he wasn’t overthrowing anything, that he was attempting to preserve his legitimate government.

        Now you and I know that’s bullshit, but it’s not on the same level as, you know, signing articles of Confederacy and waging actual war.

        In the end, Jack Smith and the 1/6 trial will decide it, but I don’t think the Supremes are going to decide it before it even gets started

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          10 months ago

          It’s already been decided he did in several courts, it’s been determined to be a fact of law, he committed insurrection. The only piece of the puzzle is if the Supreme Court wants to weigh in on if it pertains to a President,or if they remain hands off and will just let every state decide their own interpretation of the amendment. Several states have already said he was allowed on the primary only because they didn’t feel like the 14th amendment applied to primary elections, but would 100% apply when it was time for federal election. So if left up to the states I think we would see even more of them do the correct thing here in order to comply with the constitution.