• Pratai@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    This is how he needs to lose. A systemic refusal to allow a traitor to America to hold power.

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      9 months ago

      All we need is one defecting GOP SC justice to bar him from the entire country’s general election. Cross your fingers.

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      9 months ago

      I’m ok with that. I think Joe Biden better step up his game or we will get one of those other crazy Republicans. Last time we only voted for him because we were voting against trump and the others don’t have that same sway.

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      9 months ago

      Well shouldn’t the rule of law have a say? He hasn’t been convicted of anything that would bar him from office.

      He definitely should not be president but even he needs to face justice before states start arbitrarily banning him as a candidate.

      If more states bar him I have no doubt red states will start banning Democrat candidates and it will start an endless tit for tat chain of retribution. The only way it can be stopped is if he is convicted and then removed from ballot.

      • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        The insurrection clause says NOTHING about a conviction. It was written so as to apply to virtually every confederate soldier and other supporters of the confederacy, without needing to drag each and every one of them before a judge.

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        9 months ago

        He’s a twice impeached convicted rapist. What more do you need to keep him off the ballot?

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          9 months ago

          For that to disbar from the office.

          Fortunately, leading an insurrection does, and the post Civil War case law is very clear it doesn’t need a criminal conviction.

          This, btw, is common knowledge at this point, so if you see some idiot screeching about the “rule of law” just tell them this is the law.

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            9 months ago

            Sure, but we’re talking about a job application… I don’t think the difference matters there.