"The Supreme Court has effectively replaced a very high bar for allowing insurrectionists into federal office — a supermajority vote by Congress [as specified in the 14th Amendment] — with the lowest bar imaginable: congressional inaction." www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/o...
The US Constitution and Amendments have been turned into mere suggestions. The document no longer means a damn thing. SCOTUS are turn coats and should be treated as such.
Further, perhaps we could just follow Utah's legislation. Maybe every state could do this and tell the so called "SCOTUS" to pound sand.
www.cnn.com/2024/02/19/u...
I’m afraid this is true. The Court’s Republican majority has made a dead letter of Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment. I have to say also the three liberals’ concurrence sounds, in context, a bit prissy — evading the question of Trump’s disqualification & the reasons for it.
Imagine an 1868 SCOTUS decision allowing Robert E Lee on the ballot, since Congress hadn't passed national laws enforcing the 14th. 620,000 had died, we knew the definition of "insurrection". Colorado hadn't forgotten after people died Jan 6th defending (or attacking) Congress.
I guess this means Putin and the leader of the proud boys who is in prison for sedition conspiracy can also run for President. Would need a super majority in congress to stop them.
Actually, Congress did act.
They voted to impeach after the insurrection. And while they did not convict, a majority of the senate voted that he was guilty.
So, Congress did vote that he was an insurrectionist.
Detatching power (and) state from population is an act of (civil) war.
There’s no public left for a general public. Anarchy has left the lower classes, and found a new exclusive home in capitalism (corporate America)
The supermajority vote by Congress is only to make them eligible again after already having been declared an insurrectionist. It is NOT the requirement to declare ineligibility. There is no such process for that outlined in the 14A that I can tell.
