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[–] Zron 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the US has basically been running on the polite fiction that people who want to be leaders will be good leaders and behave like rational human beings.

So when someone who has no good intentions and is not rational got into power, we learned that a lot of things we thought of as laws were really just habits.

And as much as it sucks, it’s actually sensible that trump can run until he’s been proven guilty. Otherwise a wannabe dictator could just drown the opposition in frivolous lawsuits and bar them from running because of the suspicion of crime.

Don’t get me wrong, I think trump is guilty as sin and is a danger to our democracy. But, we need to be careful how we respond to this, or it could be worse when the next maniac gets into power and starts banning people from running because all of his opponents are suddenly under investigation for tax irregularities or littering.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

He was found guilty of insurrection in a state court. So that he can't run for president. But then the federal supreme court decided that this particular provision of the constitution is not self executing. And the Congress must pass a law to find Trump ineligible to run. They didn't comment on the insurrection part.

So Trump has been found guilty of insurrection and he can still run for president.