The Roberts court cleared the way for the GOP’s leader to become president again, despite his constitutionally disqualifying engagement in insurrection.
If we were following the law to the letter, well....
Aren't traitors to the United States meant to be executed?
For the record this is not a call to violence, I am not suggesting, command, inferring, or anyway implying that someone should harm anyone, but doesn't the law literally say that insurrectionists are to be hanged?
Treason carries a potential death sentence, or not less than 5 years imprisonment. Treason is also very narrowly defined by the Constitution, and what Trump did probably wouldn't satisfy the strict legal definition. He is guilty of seditious conspiracy and/or insurrection, which are not punishable by death.
Trump is not eligible to be president. He’s been legally found by a Colorado court to have engaged in insurrection and the 14th amendment now bars him from the office of president. It’s legally very clear. Will it be enforced? Will the constitution be subverted by the Supreme? Tune in for the last season of America: Democracy!
It I recall correctly, it was more of a punt. They said it needed to be litigated after the election because the constitution bans insurrectionists from office, not running or some bullshit. Fuck the god kings
You know Harris's declining probability of winning is sinking in when we're hoping the courts will defy the long sequence of continuous nothing they've done so far and will suddenly declare Trump ineligible.
At the very least, we come to these elections knowing already that half the country believes that democracy is and should be a joke. No surprises here.