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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay so when the Supreme Court reverses this because it violates due process are progs going to riot? It will be reversed [/quote]

You seem to have an odd understanding of due process.  Due process refers to, this section of the 5th Amendment:
[quote]nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law[/quote]

How does declaring him ineligible to serve as POTUS based on a later Constitutional Amendment (the 14th) deprive him of life, liberty or property?

And as another PP pointed out, even if you somehow managed to believe that this somehow applies, he was given "due process of law" with the 5 day trial in Colorado where his lawyers participated and concurred with the evidence submitted.  They did not deny any of the evidence as presented.  And then, Trump, himself, was invited to testify, but chose not to.  So, how was he not accorded due process of law?
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I'm nitpicking, but since it's Colorado supposedly working the deprivation, I think it would be the due process provision in the 14th (rather than the 5th) at issue. And, while I agree that disqualification from a federal office you'd like to have isn't a deprivation of life, liberty, or property at all -- it's not an argument that I find completely out of bounds. Like, if a court decided that the right to seek office is a protected liberty interest, I wouldn't have strong negative feelings about the decision. But ultimately that's beside the point because Trump got all kinds of process.[/quote]

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