Prominent conservative legal scholars are increasingly raising a constitutional argument that 2024 Republican candidate Donald Trump should be barred from the presidency because of his actions to overturn the previous presidential election result.
Prominent conservative legal scholars are increasingly raising a constitutional argument that 2024 Republican candidate Donald Trump should be barred from the presidency because of his actions to overturn the previous presidential election result.
Even that would be an improvement on the up-in-the-air situation we’re in right now. They would have to provide guidelines for what exactly constitutes insurrection in order to make a ruling.
Would they? No really I am asking. Couldn’t they just say this doesn’t count and not define what would.
No it wouldn’t. The Supreme Court is corrupted and therefore illegitimate, so all they’ll do is make matters worse. The abortion bans aren’t legitimate and neither would them doing something like that.
All that really fundamentally matters for the purposes of this discussion is stopping Trump from being elected again.
Systems exist to serve us and we can dispose of them and set up new ones as we please and as the need arises. This is one of those times. It has been for the entire 21st century.