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Missouri introduces ‘Donald Trump’ bill making it legal for felons to run for office
(www.independent.co.uk)
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It applied to local and state offices but apparently not federal.
Nope, that's not it:
https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=115.306&bid=34682
"Candidate for elective public office in the state of Missouri" could be read either as can't be a candidate on the ballot in Missouri or can't be a candidate for a state position. It depends on if it means [candidate for public office] in Missouri or candidate for [public office in Missouri].
I don't like how laws are always written very formally like that, I feel like English (or any language tbh) is able to be misinterpreted easily enough as is, and the stilted way it's used in legal speak just leads to questions and misunderstandings like this. I'd much rather they be written as plainly as is possible and in ways that attempted to remove ambiguity instead of add it, though a lot of the time that's the point I imagine lol.
You do realize that it is in legal speak for the exact reason you're saying that it shouldn't be, right? There are people who study law their entire lives, and it's literally their job to argue about how these words are interpreted. They're not for you and I to easily parse. If they were, they'd be way more broken and filled with even more stupid loopholes.
Almost as if this is something that we've honed over thousands of years of experience with human behavior and not just completely arbitrary.
With regards to the words "in the state of missouri" they likely conveniently interpretted it as running for an elected office that directly oversees missouri such as sherrifs, judges, state senators etc rather than a position that isnt within the jurisdiction of the state.
Trump was charged under New York law so it didn't really apply to him (in Misery)
Are Trumps New York felonies Missouri Felonies?
I'd bet nobody ever bothered checking.
Wealthy landowners with practical impunity wrote that to stop vagabonds from challenging their power