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[–] gedaliyah 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What I don't understand about the ruling is that congress has already exercised their power. Donald Trump was impeached by congress in 2021 for inciting an insurrection. The states are only enforcing the law based on the ruling a of the House of Representatives and a majority of the Senate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Removal from office takes a supermajority in the Senate, so maybe disqualification via the 14th does as well. That would presumably depend on Senate rules that currently don't cover it.

A simple majority ought to be sufficient, but it also ought to be sufficient for just about everything, but it's not.

[–] Dkarma 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

14th didn't say it's up to Congress either. The Supreme Court said that, and now it's up to Congress to decide what that looks like. The constitution lets the legislative bodies setup their own rules for how a lot of things function.

[–] FreakinSteve 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If the Supes said it without merit then it can be ignored. Ban him from the ballot anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I even disagree with the idea that it needs to be done at the Federal level. If individual states can do it, then Republicans will start declaring that everything they don't like is an insurrection (as their rhetoric already does on many issues) and remove Democrats from ballots.

Whether that means it has to be the legislature and what that looks like are different questions.

[–] FreakinSteve 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So we're just gonna allow a corrupt party to simply decide what words mean on their own?

Hold up, George Orwell on line three...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This was actually a 9-0 decision. Being a cynic is definitely justified by the state of our government, but you should have some ideas what your being cynical about.

[–] FreakinSteve 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Nothing here says that one party gets to define anything. Also, the court did not say that the Senate must agree by a 2/3 majority, only that Congress must decide. The text of the constitution does clearly make section 3 self executing but, unhelpfully, it does not tell us who determines that an insurrection occurred or whether a particular person is guilty of participation.

It clouds the issue even further that the previous vote failed in the Senate, but would have passed by a simple majority. It could well be that some who voted in favor of impeachment might have voted otherwise if a simple majority were required. I think a simple majority should be sufficient in this case, but that vote never occurred.

Personally, I'm not sure it would be a good thing to remove Trump from the ballot. I think it will be far better for the nation to defeat him at the ballot box. If Trump can actually win, then we are doomed anyways.

Trump is uniquely bad as a human being, but he is not uniquely bad as a potential Republican president. There are plenty of Republicans that would be worse, simply because they are competent and, for many milquetoast Americans, far more persuasive.

[–] FreakinSteve 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So you think that candidates should ve defeated at the ballot box and not by judicial decree, but judicial decree is perfectly okay for policymaking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am specifically talking about the current situation. It's no good to defeat Trump if we don't also defeat Trumpism.

Judicial review is always about policymaking. That is frankly a massive subject. Where the constitution and/or legislation is unclear, yes, it typically falls to the courts to interpret. However, that's not even terribly relevant here, since what the court did is throw it to Congress to make the policy decision.

[–] FreakinSteve 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What they said was that the Constitution is not the law of the land.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] FreakinSteve 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's from an opinion piece, not that anyone could tell by your reference to it. I've already explained quite clearly where I disagree.

BTW: Pasting an image of text with no link or citation really sucks. It's lazy, and forces others to go search out the source.

[–] FreakinSteve 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No it just keeps me from having to retype the same thing over and over. And of course it's from an opinion piece just as the supreme Court judges statement is an opinion piece

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

No it just keeps me from having to retype the same thing over and over.

So anyone who wants to know where it comes from has to type it to do a search. Yeah, that's not being an asshole at all. If your that lazy, just paste in a damn hyperlink.

[–] FreakinSteve 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is wild because Obama got his nom yanked because Mitch said "the institutions shouldn't do their jobs; let the American people decide if he should be able to nominate a judge!"

You dont saturate the airwaves with radical fascist conspiracist bullshit and then give the listeners and fans the reins to government

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What does this have to do with the topic we are discussing? Yeah, that was complete bullshit. If the argument is that the Supreme Court is illegitimate, then I'm with you. However, this particular ruling probably wouldn't be impacted by a change in the makeup of the court since, as I pointed out, it was a 9-0 ruling. Replace all three of Trump's nominees with judges that agree with you, and you still lose 6-3.

Personally I think Biden should have stuffed the court with one judge for each Federal district (13). Even if he did that, and all the new judges took your perspective, you still lose 9-4.

[–] FreakinSteve 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Constitution says what it says. If I lost 6-3 it doesnt change the fact that they decided that the Constitution does not say what it says, and is not the law of the land. We can easily speculate why they ruled that way based on exactly what we know about their corruption. They rejected the Constitution; this is not debateable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

And what does the constitution say about who decides when someone has participated in an insurrection? Exact constitutional text please.

[–] FreakinSteve 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck are you on about now? This has nothing to do with prosecuting Trump and his conspirators. You seem to have me pigeonholed as a Trump supporter or something. I'm commenting on a single ruling on a subject that is just as likely to damage Biden as Trump.

Republicans say Biden is guilty of insurrection for allowing illegal aliens across the border, and will happily remove him from every ballot they can because of it. It's absolute bullshit of course, but Republicans aren't shy about passing bullshit or ruling based on bullshit. If that shit show sounds great to you, then you go ahead and override the court and send it to the states.

[–] FreakinSteve 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's the constitution, not Webster's dictionary. It is not the Constitution's job to define every single word that is within the Constitution. Participating in an insurrection is participating in an insurrection, which is what happened on January 6th. The Constitution clearly states that anyone who does such is ineligible to hold office again. This is not complicated at all. What is happening is a slow coup

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Read your argument above then read this response again. You are arguing that the court is overriding what the constitution says, then arguing that it doesn't matter that the constitution says nothing on the subject. Your mind is a really weird place.

[–] FreakinSteve 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

According to your very own interpretation with this question there is no such thing as a crime because every time a crime is committed someone has to step in and define what a crime is. We can't say a victim was murdered because there's no one to determine what a murder is. Fraud and larceny cannot possibly be crimes because the Constitution nor the Senate have appointed someone to define what larceny and fraud is.

Do you not see how psychotic resorting to such ridiculous semantics are?

Why is everyone so desperate to back up the SCOTUS claim that 'there is no law, therefore there can be no disorder'?

It's not even a "dogs can't play basketball!" ruling; it's a "there are no dogs" ruling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you really not aware that one of the primary jobs of Congress is to literally define what a crime is? That's what laws are. There is literally a statute (several actually) passed by Congress that does define what murder, fraud, and larceny are. That's the cornerstone of due process. A crime isn't a crime unless there is a law being broken. You have failed your constitution test.