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Colorado voters sue to disqualify Donald Trump from 2024 presidential ballot
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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That's the point of invoking the 14th though, it doesn't require a guilty verdict. It was originally used against ranking members of the confederates to prevent them from holding office even though very few of them were ever convicted. Specifically section 3:
That's some of the plainest language in the Constitution, to boot. I can't wait to see the #GOP's mental acrobatics in court.
They won't even try to justify it. They'll just pretend it doesn't exist and try to throw money at the issue until the right person takes it and makes it go away.
Probably something like "Um actually, it doesn't count as an insurrection if the sitting president supports it" or "there is no government to rebell against during the election certification process."
I can't find a source but I think the argument for the 14rh came from a republican think tank.
Nice.
Those Confederates you mention made the situation very cut and dry by clearly declaring their intentions, adopting a separate constitution, putting on uniforms, etc. Trump and his followers haven't done that; rather, they position themselves as true American patriots fighting to defend the country against malicious actors. Simply invoking the 14th amendment and kicking Trump to the curb will play directly into his side's narrative. We need to go through the courts to give the process legitimacy.
They do have uniforms and flags, have abandoned the constitution and have very vocally said they want a war against democracy.