Anonymous wrote:SCOTUS gave Trump a big beautiful gift.

Yep, and no coincidence it came out the day before Super Tuesday voting.

Colorado should ignore this ruling.

Was the law under which trump is currently being prosecuted enacted pursuant to section 3?!

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Anonymous wrote:SCOTUS gave Trump a big beautiful gift.

Just wait for the immunity ruling before thanking SCOTUS.

It will be April and the case will close soon after because Trump is running for President. There will be no judicial solution to Trump’s criminality.

Anonymous wrote:SCOTUS gave Trump a big beautiful gift.

Just wait for the immunity ruling before thanking SCOTUS.

SCOTUS gave Trump a big beautiful gift.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump can stay on the ballot.

Correct decision.

Of course, they said responsibility "rests with Congress and not the states." So what did the Senate say?

"We have no power to convict and disqualify a former officeholder who is now a private citizen."

The Senate was talking about something else.

Anyway, the text of the Fourteenth Amendment says "But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." The Senate cannot re-qualify Trump on their own regardless. Trump remains disqualified under the Amendment.

So you are suggesting that the disqualification is self-executing?

In the past, it was. From the plain language of the amendment, "No person shall...", it is.

So he should step out of the race then, since he cannot be seated. [Not holding my breath for the Republicans in Congress to agree with you on this].

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Anonymous wrote:Trump can stay on the ballot.

Correct decision.

What happened to States Rights that they harped on in their confirmation hearings not to mention giving the individual states the right to ban abortions. May these Nine quivering Quisling-Laval doppelgangers meet the same end as the originals!

This isn’t a state office. Again. No brainer.

States run their own federal elections in the manner they see fit, and they all do it different ways: https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/state-primary-election-types That is what makes it a states right issue. You will note that not every federal office candidate is on every state's ballot, see e.g. Cenk Uygur, who is on some ballots but not others because not born in U.S. Other states let anyone throw their own name in the hat.

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Anonymous wrote:R.I.P. Democracy

Right. A decision the ensures voters get to decide who will be president is truly an assault to democracy? Do you even hear yourself?

The point is, no one can stop a President from committing an insurrection. Congress already said it doesn't believe it has the power; now the Court says they don't and neither do the states. So, how does the U.S. government prevent someone --anyone, leave Trump out of it -- from holding office if they commit an act of insurrection under the 14th Amendment?

Congress was wrong when it said it didn’t have the power, that’s what the Supreme Court just ruled. The court just interpreted the constitution on this issue.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump can stay on the ballot.

Correct decision.

Of course, they said responsibility "rests with Congress and not the states." So what did the Senate say?

"We have no power to convict and disqualify a former officeholder who is now a private citizen."

The Senate was talking about something else.

Anyway, the text of the Fourteenth Amendment says "But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." The Senate cannot re-qualify Trump on their own regardless. Trump remains disqualified under the Amendment.

So you are suggesting that the disqualification is self-executing?

In the past, it was. From the plain language of the amendment, "No person shall...", it is.

Anonymous wrote:There once was a man from New York
Whose campaign was met with a fork
The court said, "No way!
It's Congress's play!"
Now chaos and turmoil are corked.

I think you mean uncorked.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump can stay on the ballot.

Correct decision.

Of course, they said responsibility "rests with Congress and not the states." So what did the Senate say?

"We have no power to convict and disqualify a former officeholder who is now a private citizen."

The Senate was talking about something else.

Anyway, the text of the Fourteenth Amendment says "But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." The Senate cannot re-qualify Trump on their own regardless. Trump remains disqualified under the Amendment.

So you are suggesting that the disqualification is self-executing?

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Anonymous wrote:R.I.P. Democracy

Right. A decision the ensures voters get to decide who will be president is truly an assault to democracy? Do you even hear yourself?

And you are excusing insurrection as a viable and just fine action to take when losing an election.

They are and I think it’s time we stop pretending that Republican voters are good people with different values. They are actively bad people who will countenance any kind of crime so long as it serves their purposes.

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Anonymous wrote:R.I.P. Democracy

Right. A decision the ensures voters get to decide who will be president is truly an assault to democracy? Do you even hear yourself?

And you are excusing insurrection as a viable and just fine action to take when losing an election.

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Anonymous wrote:R.I.P. Democracy

Right. A decision the ensures voters get to decide who will be president is truly an assault to democracy? Do you even hear yourself?

The point is, no one can stop a President from committing an insurrection. Congress already said it doesn't believe it has the power; now the Court says they don't and neither do the states. So, how does the U.S. government prevent someone --anyone, leave Trump out of it -- from holding office if they commit an act of insurrection under the 14th Amendment?