• 4am@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    It’s not a new law, it’s in the constitution. He cannot hold office, and there’s no need for a conviction. He participated.

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      8 months ago

      They didn’t say that it’s not in the Constitution they said the states can’t enforce it.

      If we want to enforce it as a country it should come from Congress. If you give the states leeway to take people off the ballot, States can do stupid things I agree he deserves to be off the ballot but I do not love giving swing states that tool.

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        8 months ago

        it should come from Congress

        It seems people might not believe that Congress would abide by the constitution, seeing as last time around a whole bunch of them straight-up voted to not abide by the election results.

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        8 months ago

        States can enforce the constitutional age limit, it’s incoherent garbage nonsense to pretend states can not enforce the constitutional treason restriction