Trump blocked from Maine presidential ballot in 2024
Trump blocked from Maine presidential ballot in 2024
Maine's top election official has ruled Trump cannot run for president next year in the state.
A surprise, to be sure. But a welcome one.
One can only hope this starts an avalanche of other states following through with the same thing. It would be glorious for the GOP to be scrambling for a candidate after Trump is off the ballot in half the states. The fracturing of the party would be amazing.
Haha get fucked traitor
I personally don't believe Donald Trump should be the next president.
However, is anybody concerned that the existing government is telling you who you cannot vote for?
This seems like it could lead to problems down the road.
Nah. Because the constitution says a traitorous insurrectionist doesn't belong in government. I agree with the constitution 100%
I agree it's probably true, but he hasn't been convinced of insurrection (yet), has he? The sixth amendment to the Constitution guarantees a fair trial, no?
So the sitting government decided their opponent is guilty of "The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government", and then told you and everyone else you're not allowed to vote for him. Could that not be applied to all opposition?
That's not concerning? What if it's switched next time?
The government also says I can't vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger for president, because he's constitutionally ineligible for that office. The reasons someone can be ineligible for the presidency seem to be fair, and accurately enforcing them isn't a slippery slope.
The 14th amendment section 3 lays out that someone who takes an oath of office and then engages in insurrection is ineligible to hold office unless Congress removes that ineligibility, and this seems to be what Trump has done.
If anything, if he's truly ineligible, not removing him from ballots is the thing that should be concerning. Maybe SCOTUS will deem him actually eligible, but not starting that process seems to be the wrong thing to do if you believe he's actually ineligible.
Hmm. Dictatorship if he wins, Democracy with a shitty slippery slope argument if he loses.
This seems like it could lead to problems down the road.
Yep. Shitty slippery slope argument. Fucking check.