Posted on 08/21/2023 8:10:44 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
As Donald Trump fights a mountain of criminal charges, a separate battle over his eligibility to run for president in 2024 is fast emerging.
The US constitution sets out just a handful of explicit requirements someone must meet to be the president. They must be at least 35 years old, a “natural-born” citizen, and a United States resident for at least 14 years. The constitution also bars someone who has served as president for two full terms from running again.
None of those requirements disqualify Trump, or anyone else charged with a crime, from running for federal office.
But one provision in the constitution, section 3 of the 14th amendment, makes things more complicated. It says that no person who has taken an oath “as an officer of the United States” can hold office if they “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof”.
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Disqualification under the 14th amendment does not require a criminal conviction, Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), said in an interview earlier this month. The push to disqualify Trump is likely to play out at the state level in parallel to both the federal and state cases criminally charging Trump and allies in connection with their efforts to overturn the election. The left-leaning group Free Speech for People has already sent letters to election officials in 10 states urging them to declare Trump ineligible to run for office under the 14th amendment. Crew is also preparing to file litigation in several states to disqualify Trump from the ballot, Bookbinder said.
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Biden and the Uniparty might need those F15s and nukes if they do this.
Republicans in the primary, who don't quash this in the crib, deserve a red flag.
“The Grauniad”
Calling Jan 6 an “insurrection” is like calling Stacey Abrams “anemic”.
The economy sucks, children are being mutilated, open borders, crime through the roof, inflation seems to be ramping up again, gas prices close to $4 a gallon, brink of war......
.......BUT TRUMP!!!!
Total purposeful misuse of the word insurrection.
The Secretaries of State in the various states will try to keep Trump off the ballot.
It’s the same old game.
“Why we’ll just deny the people the ability to vote for Trump. And that way our guy will stay in power. We MUST do this...for Democracy!”
More of the pernicious lawfare — dredge up a very old law that was created for an entirely different purpose and apply it selectively to Trump. The 14th Amendment was written to address the problem of people loyal to the Confederacy running for president. It has no bearing on the current situation. But that doesn’t ever stop the opportunistic and conniving leftists. They will go to any length to destroy Trump because he threatens their USSA project.
It’s not, working, it’s not working, he’s getting stonger!
No.
The Left is at war with the country in an effort to overthrow the current government. Getting rid of Trump would logically be job number one given that he is what stands between them and victory.
Even Ray Charles could see they plan on preventing Trump from running, one way or the other.
Except that's what the left has been calling it right from the start. Oh and so has the GOPe led by China Mitch:
“We all were here. We saw what happened. It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election, from one administration to the next. That’s what it was.”The shocker is that Jack the Ripper Smith didn't charge President Trump with insurrection.
—Mitch McConnell February 8, 2022
They want us out on the streets waiving guns. That’s not how it would happen. We learned a lot in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Disgusting. The “insurrection” came from the Left with all the fraud and gaslighting. It started the summer prior to the election with the riots and fires.
THESE (pl) entire set of indictments ALL stem form one basic tenet;
President Trump is lying about BELIEVING the election was stolen and that he is constantly stating a Big Lie.
President doesn't believe the election was stolen, he (and all of us, too . . . )
KNOW it was stolen, thus there is No lie and no basis for the charges in all four "indictments"
If they make challenging a crooked election a crime we will never have another fair election.
“The Secretaries of State in the various states will try to keep Trump off the ballot.”
I imagine that will only be in states where he wasn’t going to win anyway.
But...didnt many states adopt the “electoral votes go to the popular vote winner” changes to their election rules? Does that go into effect this time around?
Because all of that is what they want. They want to ruin America as we know it and fall in line with a kind of dictatorship under the guise of being America as it should be.
Trump does not. He is not part of that.
And so:
.......BUT TRUMP!!!!
I agree with that. It will probably look like a whack-a-mole.
Something tells me the quiet is people watching to see what happens with 2024.
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