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The classified documents case is the one where a conviction disqualified the defendant from running for federal office.
It definitely shouldn’t be postponed past the Republican convention. If the GOP needs a new candidate, they should be given a chance to choose one for the sake of fair elections.
The classified documents case is the one where a conviction disqualified the defendant from running for federal office.
Unfortunately I don't believe this is the case. What statute do you believe does this?
It’s in subsection (b).
Thanks for the link.
Although I probably shouldn't have said statute.
Correction, from holding any major state office either. If he's convicted then there can be no doubt that he engaged in insurrection. That will mean that the 14th Amendment will apply. That reads, in part:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
I mean, he could probably still run for a school board, but he can't be in any state legislature, or executive, or even a judge in any state.
Nothing in what you quoted here would disqualify him from running for office with a conviction here in the documents case.
Sad, but I mixed up which criminal trial was under discussion. Thanks for the correction.
Lol understandably
“Judge”. Right.
Sycophant. She's a fucking disgrace. Just give her her own Fox News show and let’s be done.
You know how many cases she'd adjudicated before this one? Eight. She should be disqualified based on gross inexperience for such an important and historic case.
with this terrible excuse for a human being running this corner of the show, we will have to hope that he doesnt make it on some state ballots or enough idiots have died not to vote for him.
i am going to love watching him sit in prison should the gop not nominate him. course, that would require they have a spine of some sorts
Its fucking asinine she is not removed from this case. You can't postpone something that would disqualify him being on the ballots until after the ballots are out. Thats not even enough time to get a new candidate when Trump finally trips on his dick.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is at least a modest victory for special counsel Jack Smith’s team, which had vigorously rejected efforts to push off the trial beyond its scheduled start date of May 20, 2024.
“Although the Special Counsel is correct that the trajectory of these matters potentially remains in flux, the schedules as they currently stand overlap substantially with the deadlines in this case, presenting additional challenges to ensuring Defendant Trump has adequate time to prepare for trial and to assist in his defense,” Cannon wrote.
She pushed back several deadlines for filing and responding to pretrial motions but left the trial date intact, though she said she would consider the defense request again at a scheduling conference next March.
The case in Florida includes dozens of felony charges accusing the Republican former president of illegally retaining classified documents at his Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago, and hiding them from government investigators.
Trump is currently set for trial on March 4, 2024, in Washington on federal charges that he plotted to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump has denied wrongdoing in all of the cases, claiming without evidence that they are part of a politically motivated effort to prevent him from returning to the White House.
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