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.

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    1 year ago

    In practice, it goes eventually to the Supreme Court which, like the Republican Party, has been Trumpified and therefore will see no problem, case closed.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.