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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trump's defenders cling to two atarguments:

[b]1 - the President of the United States is not an "officer"; and [/b]
2- He's never been convicted

Both arguments are complete BS and fly in the face of logic and jurisprudence[/quote]

The 14th amendment, Section 3 also includes "or hold any office, civil or military..."

The Office of the President is most definitely an office.  So whether you consider him an officer or not, the 14th amendment would not allow Trump to hold the office of the President.[/quote]

Not to give the argument to much credence, but I think it is more focused on the other part of section 3, where the disqualification only applies to anyone "who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States."  So basically they are saying that the oath he took as president was not as "an officer of the United States" and therefore doesn't count.  However, the oath of the dogcatcher would count.  Because that makes total sense.[/quote]

Haha. Yes. Makes no sense at all that we'd bar him from being a deputy postmaster but it's totally o.k. to let the insurrectionist be President. And to reach that conclusion, you have to decide that person holding the office of President isn't an officer of the United States. That said, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the "textualists" on the Supreme Court decided that the Constitution really meant "an officer of the United States except for the office of President" where the exception is written in invisible ink.  [/quote]

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